Adil Isgandarov

from Ganja, Azerbaijan

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Biography

Adil Rza bey oglu Isgandarov (Azerbaijani: Adil İsgəndərov) was an Azerbaijani theatre and film director, actor, first People's Artist of the USSR from Transcaucasia.

Isgandarov joined amateur pioneers association at 10. When he was 13, he played role as Karam in "Gachag Karam" play. After gaining fame in Ganja, he was brought to Baku. Isgandarov got his first education in director-actor field in Baku Technical School of Theatre. After graduation he got professional experience in Moscow from 1932 to 1936 and graduated from Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts in 1936. After returning to Baku, he worked at Azerbaijan State Academic National Drama Theatre as director, then chief director from 1936 to 1960. Isgandarov also worked at Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts named after Mirzaagha Aliyev from 1937 to 1956. He was elected as depute in 1955 and 1959 for Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR. Isgandarov served as director of Azerbaijanfilm named after Jafar Jabbarli from 1966 to 1974.

Timeline

1979Aged 69

  • Poster for The Stab in the Back

    Dadaşlı

1978Aged 68

  • Poster for My Love, My Sorrow

    Head Foreman

1977Aged 67

1976Aged 66

  • Poster for The Darvish Detonates Paris

    Hatamkhan agha

1974Aged 64

  • Poster for The 1001st Tour

    Aligafa

1971Aged 61

  • Poster for The Stars Don't Fade

    Nasib bey

  • Poster for The Last Mountain Pass

    Karbalayi

1968Aged 58

  • Poster for In the Name of the Law

    Kamilov

1966Aged 56

  • Poster for The Twenty Six Comissars

    Xachaturov

1964Aged 54

  • Poster for Romeo, My Neighbour

    Kuliev

  • Poster for Where is Ahmad?

    Director

1963Aged 53

  • Poster for The Labour and Rose

    (Unknown)

1961Aged 51

  • Poster for Leyli and Majnun

    Merchant

1958Aged 48

  • Poster for If Not This, Then That

    rowdy

  • Poster for On Distant Shores

    Rosselini

1957Aged 47

  • Poster for Two Boys from the Same District

    (Unknown)

1956Aged 46