Huseyn Seyidzade

Huseyn Seyidzade was born in Yerevan in October 1910, into a family of merchants, which left the city in 1918 for Tiflis, then for Baku. A worker in a knitwear factory, then an actor at the workers' theatre in Baku, he entered the film studio in 1930, studied directing at the Moscow film institute, in the class of two masters of Soviet cinema, and was second director on films by Mikhail Romm and by another great name of that cinema. He directed half a dozen feature films from 1942 to 1978, was named Honoured Artist in 1970 and died in Baku on 2 June 1979.

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• CinemaIf Not That One, Then This OneO olmasın, bu olsunHuseyn Seyidzade · 1956Cinema