Tofig Taghizade

Tofig Taghizade was born in Baku on 7 February 1919. He graduated in 1953 from the directing faculty of the Moscow film institute, where he had studied in the workshop of Sergei Yutkevich and another master of Soviet cinema, and joined the Baku studio, to which he devoted nearly forty years and fourteen films. Occasionally an actor and screenwriter, he was named Honoured Artist of Azerbaijan in 1960 and of Chechen-Ingushetia in 1964, then People's Artist in 1976. He died in Baku on 27 August 1998.

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• CinemaDada GorgudDədə QorqudTofig Taghizade · 1975Cinema