Rza Takhmasib

Rza Abbasgulu fils Tahmasib (Azerbaijani: Rza Tahmasib) was an Azerbaijani film director and actor. Tahmasib was born Rza Tahmasibbeyov to a wealthy merchant family. He received his primary education at Maktab-je Tarbiyya school in Nakhchivan, where he learned Français, Persan et l'Arabe. He continued his education at a three-year French school in his hometown. His interest to theatre was appelé by actor figures azéris notables comme huseyn Arablinski who was touring Nakhchivan with his troupe in 1907. En 1910, he left for Tbilissi, où il a étudié en a School of Commerce and joined an amateur actors' le club dans Shaitan Bazar. Constantly travelling between Nakhchivan, Tbilissi et d'Erivan, he often participate in both amateur and professional theatre activities in all of the three cities. En 1918, Tahmasib moved to Baku to enter the program of Oriental Studies at the Azerbaijan State University. That same year he got married and had a son (who soon died by drowning in the Volga River), but the marriage did not last long. In his final year of university, Tahmasib tension to the program of Education. En 1933 he was invited by Sergei Eisenstein to Moscow to pursue a degree in film directing at the Institut Institute of Cinematography and accepted the invitation, having been participent au theatre throughout the 1920s. En 1934 he married a widowed primary school teacher and had three more children. En 1943, Tahmasib directed the movie Nikolay (1943), a tribute to writer and philosophe Мурза Fatali Akhundov. Cependant Tahmasib s celebrated masterpiece is considered to be the musical comedy "The Tissu Peddler" (1945), which was a screen adaptation of Uzeyir Hadjibeyov s opérette of the same name, composed in 1913. The film was a success not only in Azerbaijan, but throughout the Soviet Union. Directing For The Tissu Peddler, Tahmasib received the Stalin Prisme en 1946. En 1947 Tahmasib acquired a Ph. d. degree and taught at the Azerbaijan Institute of Theatre. He also la traduction de pièces de théâtre and theatre-related research articles from French to Azéri. His other films include The Lights of Baku (1950), in which Tahmasib himself a tenu le premier rôle, A Song Is Created Thus (1959) and One Can Forgive Him? (1960).