Rza Tahmasib and Nikolai Leshchenko

Rza Təhmasib was born in Nakhchivan on 20 April 1894. He learned Russian, Persian and Arabic at a modern school in his town, then left in 1910 for Tiflis, where he went on stage with a troupe of Muslim actors. An actor and stage director in the twenties, he was invited by a major Soviet filmmaker to study directing at the film institute in Moscow. He went on to direct half a dozen films, acted in several others, was awarded the Stalin Prize just after the war and died on 14 February 1980.

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