Ceyhun Mirzäyev
Actor · 1946 – 1993 · Gyulably, Agdamskiy rayon, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR
Jeyhun Jamil oglu Mirzayev (Azerbaijani: Ceyhun Mirzəyev) was an Azerbaijani actor and film director. Mirzayev was born in the Gulabli village, in Aghdam, Azerbaijan, to Jamil Mirzayev and his second wife Margarita. He had a half-sister from his mother's previous marriage to Yusif Mammadaliyev's brother Ibrahim. Mirzayev's father died when he was three years old. Noted for his good performance skills, he became a child actor in 1955 when he acted in the film The Meeting. Three years later, at age 12, Mirzayev played the leading role of young Ismayil in the film Stepmother. He later graduated from Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts majoring in film directing. He was most notable for starring and directing an Azerbaijani war film The Squall in 1993. Mirzayev was expected to be on movie's opening but he died from sudden heart attack.
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Movie5.4DramaThe main character Vorobei is a professional grave digger and alcohol addict, who runs away from hospital to dig graves instead of treating his head broken by his brother. He comes to cemetery and keeps on working, instead of his friends' advice to stay in the hospital. The world of death turns out to be surrounded by corruption, satanic money-making, cemetery mafia and lots of vodka.
Movie5.5HistoryWarThe heroic Koroghlu is a poor youngster who leads a peasants' revolt against the tyrannic Khan.
Movie5.8ComedyMade in the tragic comedy genre, this film is about the dysfunctional Soviet management system in Azerbaijan SSR at the end of 1980s and about the decadence and corruption of the Soviet bureaucracy.
Movie1.0DramaCrimeThe film is about the public prosecutor who fought against the criminality but was killed by them.
MovieDramaWarShot during the Nagorno-Karabakh War, "Fəryad" is only one of its kind. Following the Khojaly Massacre, Ismayil, an officer tasked with collecting the bodies, crosses enemy lines to avenge the brutal murder of a local schoolgirl. There he gets captured by Armenians and waits for the day to be exchanged for an enemy POW.
Movie3.3ComedyRomanceThe film is about Azerbaijanian and Uzbekistan's cotton-growers contest and about two young people's love.
Movie7.5WarAdventureSummer 1942. Nazi troops storm the Caucasus. They are rushing to get their hands on Baku oil. An Abwehr special group called "Wartburg" has settled in the Nalchik area. In Baku, German spy Ziegel (Pavel Kadochnikov) heads to the oil fields from Maykop under the name of Soviet engineer Kashtanov. Tankers carrying gasoline begin to explode in the Caspian Sea. Soviet counterintelligence agent "Khazri" infiltrates "Wartburg"...
MovieAdventureA young boy in Cuba finds himself in mortal peril as his fishing village gets infiltrated by malign forces.
Movie4.0HistoryActionThe film is about Gachag Nabi's heroism.
Movie4.0DramaAfter the novel of the same name of I.Shykhly. The film is about new intelligenzia in Azerbaijan at the beginning of the 20th century.
Movie4.0MysteryThrillerAfter the novel "Sahil Amaliyyati" (The operation of "Side") of the same name of Jamshid Amirov. The film is about foreign secret service's operation and it's revelation by security organs.
MovieDramaHistoryThe film is about events which has happened with the "Potyomkin" ship.
Movie6.0DramaRomanceThe film is about the stepmother who tried to be a real mother of a boy. But she could be a real mother only after some difficult events for her and child.
Movie1.0DramaAdventureThe film is about two fishermen who went through difficult ordeal during the shipwreck.
MovieDramaMatteo Falcone is an Azerbaijani short drama film based on Prosper Merimée's like-named story from 1829. Matteo Falcone is a successful Corsican, who lives with his wife Giuseppa and 10-year-old son Fortunato. One day he leaves home with Giuseppa, leaving Fortunato alone.
Movie4.7ComedyRomanceAfter learning that his daughter is in love with a truck driver, corrupt Housing Office director tries to make use of his service in a last smuggle operation, then break his promise and marry her to someone else. This comedy is mainly about the dark sides of the Soviet bureucracy.