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Filmmaker · Azerbaijan

Hasan Seyidbeyli

Died in 1980

Hasan Seyidbeyli was born in Baku on 22 December 1920. He studied at the Leningrad institute of film engineers, then from 1943 to 1951 in the directing faculty of the Moscow film institute. A writer from 1942, he wrote with İmran Qasımov a narrative devoted to a Soviet hero of the war, brought to the screen in 1958, as well as novels and plays, and directed a dozen films. People's Artist in 1976, he was from 1963 until his death, on 25 June 1980, first secretary of the Azerbaijan filmmakers' union.

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