Rasim Balayev
Also Known As: Расим Балаев
Biography: Rasim Akhmed oglu Balayev is an Azerbaijani cinema and theatrical actor. He starred in the leading roles in more than 60 Azerbaijani films. Rasim Balayev was born on 8 August 1948 in Aghsu region of Azerbaijan. At the age of 15-16, he got involved in theater performances. Being from rural area, Rasim's family attempted to push him to choose a different career, though he never did and got enrolled in Azerbaijani Institute of Arts, from which he graduated in 1969. The actor's first film experience on big screen came with a short role in the film "Stars don't die away". Rasim Balayev's fame came after his part in 3 movies and participation in two film festivals: the 7th Soviet festival in Baku and 3rd International festival in Tashkent where he received an award for Best Actor and several proposals for main roles in future movies. Among his best performances are films Nasimi, Babek, The Scoundrel, Anecdote, and The Bat.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Istisu, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR
Birthday: August 08, 1948
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Rider with Lightning in His Hand
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-08-31
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Выигрыш одинокого коммерсанта
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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The Bat
Overview: In a Azerbaijan, in the beginning of this century, the first films made in the history of cinema are shown.The characters meet each other in a room. Three characters who will witness the linking up of their destinies through their common love for this new captivating art.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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The Bay of Happiness
Overview: The film is about the first oil-well in the world in the world in the 1920th.
Genres: Drama History Mystery
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1978-04-02
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Old Men, Old Men...
Overview: Follows the old man who retired, unable to adapt to city life, and his return to the village.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Mountain Novella
Overview: About the life of a high-mountain village in Checheno-Ingushetia. The heroine of the film is a young teacher Svetlana Smirnova, who came to work at a local school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-05-07
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Steepness
Overview: Follows the young collective farm chairman Kazbek, a supporter of the revival of mountain farming.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-04-28
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Black Volga
Overview: The film talks about countless crimes committed by the criminal group led by "Panjali Aslan" and eventually the destruction of this criminal group by law enforcement agencies.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Nasimi
Overview: The film is a biographical true story about life of Imadaddin Nasimi, well known throughout the East for his school of philosophy and thought, poems and promotion of moral values in a feudal society. During the 14th-15th centuries, when Azerbaijan was a stage for warring powers and civil wars, Nasimi was the only poet committed to promotion of humanism and moral values inflicting criticism on the ruling system and the society itself. For his intruding role in feudal regimes, Nasimi lived a complex and tragic life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1974-06-05
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Babek
Overview: It is an epic movie about an Azerbaijani martur-hero who revolted against the Arab invasion of the 7th century.
Genres: History War Action
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1979-12-02
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Interrogation
Overview: The investigator Seyfi Ganiyev runs the case of an illegal mercery shop's head Murad Abiyev, who confessed in embezzlement of one million rubles from public funds. Abiyev is also accused of the murder of an underage girls that occurred in Riga shortly after Abiyev saw her. He denies his guilt, but does not name the perpetrators though he knows them, despite the fact that he is facing the death penalty. The investigator understands that some high-ranking officials stand behind Abiyev, but he has no proof. Ganiyev seeks to obtain from the prisoner the whole truth to bring the criminals to justice.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1979-02-18
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Saddle these Horses
Overview: The film is about Gachag Nabi's heroism.
Genres: History Action Adventure
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1984-08-25
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The Stab in the Back
Overview: Young inspector investigates a murder in small town.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1977-10-03
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Fortress
Overview: A drama about a film crew making a movie in an isolated mountain town famous for its ancient fortress, and what happens when the town is threatened by a modern-day foreign invasion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 2008-06-01
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The Jinn in Microdistrict
Overview: The events in the film take place in one of the modern cities. The editor-in-chief Rustam Agayev (Egit Iskenderov) finds an ancient lamp placed in the jaw. For the talented but poor character Rustam, this lamp shatters the sky. With the help of jinn, the young man suceeds: his play is made on anchor; his girlfriend, Maya (Natalia Tagiyeva), agrees to marry him, and the bar is in the apartment. But Rustam wants to achieve everything. When the jinn throws away his "owner," he unveils the secret: a person must believe in his own power, and there must be a strong desire to create miracles.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Music
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1986-02-15
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Business and Pleasure
Overview: Mustafa works as a guide in Shaki (the city in Azerbaijan) and decides traveling to Turkey for making a trade to get some money. When his spouse and him went there, unexpected processes started to happen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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A Country House for One Family
Overview: On the seashore, the mother and father decided to build a country house where their three sons, daughter, daughters-in-law and grandchildren could gather together. But neither the sons nor the daughter can find time to visit and help their parents. Only the eldest son understands his father and mother...
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1978-02-13
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The Devil under the Windshield
Overview: A journalist is investigating a group of poachers who are illegally selling the huge amounts of fish
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1988-07-01
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The Joke
Overview: Made in the tragic comedy genre, this film is about the dysfunctional Soviet management system in Azerbaijan SSR at the end of 1980s and about the decadence and corruption of the Soviet bureaucracy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1990-01-10
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Dada Gorgud
Overview: Legend of Azerbaijanian people "Kitabi Dada - Gorgud" is about damatic events, about Dada Gorgud.
Genres: War Drama Action Romance
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1975-09-02
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Firangiz
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1975-10-20
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Happiness Cares
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1977-08-01
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The Tale of the Old Oak Tree
Overview: The film raises the problem of man's relationship to nature, the symbol of which is an old oak tree, protected by a forester from selfish people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1984-09-08
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The Scoundrel
Overview: Film exposes the corruption and the decadence of the late Soviet bureaucracy in Azerbaijan SSR through the eyes of a naive Azerbaijani adult man, Hatem.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1988-05-31
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The Diversion
Overview: After fulfilling his duty in Afghan War, Zaur returns to his home Baku. He is trying to clarify the truth when he heard that his father was arrested.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1989-02-18
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The Avenger of Ganjabasar
Overview: The film is about the rebellion in Ganja in 1919-1920 at the head of Gatir Mammad.
Genres: History Action
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1974-05-26
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An Ice in a Warm Sea
Overview: The old shipyard repairman ust-Nazar returned to work after an illness. They were already preparing to see the old man off to retirement. But Ust-Nazar was able to convince his superiors of his efficiency, and they instructed him to repair the old boat. By spring, the boat was ready for sailing. When a huge ice floe threatened the oil rig during an ice break, the old man, without thinking about his own life, went with a battering ram to the ice block.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1983-05-14
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The Special Visit to German Clinic
Overview: Baku, Year 1920. Secret agent of the Emergency Commission Engineer Mammad Rustamov is sent to Berlin with a special assignment. On the pretext of treating his son's illness, Mammad is endangering his life and people around him.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1988-11-17
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Hotel Room
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The Basement
Overview: After many years of effort and patience, she failed to save her family. She watched with pain as her husband, an architect by training, was ruining his life with idleness and melancholy. Unable to bear the boredom of life together, she leaves home...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1990-12-01
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Wait for Me
Overview: The film is about village boy who became an enlisment officer and came back to Garabagh and fell in love with bey's daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1980-12-30
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Don't Step in-He'll Kill You
Overview: The film is about fellows spending time on the shore and about some events.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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There, Where the Rivers Merge
Overview: A man goes to prison for years for a crime his cousin committed. After his release he moves to his native village and lives a simple life. But when his cousin comes to visit, his old thoughts of revenge return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 2004-08-02
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An Old Ferry
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1985-09-13
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This Wonderful, Wonderful World
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The First Hour of Life
Overview: The film is about oilmen having different ideals and decisions, were also based on this same ideology, depiciting the heroism of oil workers, who never became exhausted and who continued working in oil, generation after generation. It was the oil workers who were always invincible, unconquerable and unyieling, in contrast with other characters who were shown as weak and who preferred to earn a living via easier means.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1974-09-16
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Unusual Hunt
Overview: The film is devoted problems of protection of ecology.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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The Day after Tomorrow at Midnight
Overview: After the novel of the same name of M. Avdiyev and A. Donets. The film is about first operations of National State Security.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1981-12-01
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Additional Trace
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Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1981-02-13
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The Native Shores
Overview: The film is about frontier-guards who averts the diversion in hydroelectric power station which was built by another state.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Adventure
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1989-08-30
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Broken Bridges
Overview: The plot of film is constructed on the basis of memoirs of the son and mother. They were divided with border between northern and southern Azerbaijan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-19
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The Witness
Overview: The film tells a story about non-democratic and non-legal social events in the country of Azerbaijan.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1990-09-15
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The Turned World
Overview: The joint struggle of the Azerbaijani and Iranian police against the forces organizing international drug trafficking.
Genres: Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: az
Release Date: 2011-06-30
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Tale of the Lonely Pomegranate Tree
Overview: After the story of the same name of Akram Aylisli.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1984-01-31
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The Stars don't Fade
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1971-03-20
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Straight to the Volcano
Overview: After the novellette of the same name of Mehdi Huseyn.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1977-03-28
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Wäre die Erde nicht rund...
Overview: While studying in Moscow, the GDR resident Christiane falls in love with Hatem, a fellow student from Syria. The two become a couple and even have a child together. When their study draws to an end, Christiane and Hatem have to decide if they want to share their future together. After Hatem explains to Christiane that as a woman she will not be able to work in Syria, Christiane suggests moving to the GDR together. For Hatem, however, this is out of the question, since he considers it a betrayal of his country. Thus, the two young people are forced to go separate ways.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-12-03
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Goodbye Schmidt!
Overview: “Goodbye Schmidt!”. A movie, which deeply hints, even though it doesn’t make to think about…* Emil Schmidt belongs to the German ethnicity and wishes to immigrate to Germany. He dreams to realize his goal by applying to the German Embassy with official requests every month, but at the very beginning, nothing is that simple, as it seems to be to him. He is being accepted, but only to the offices. He is being heard, but nobody listens to him. People feel sorry for him, but they don't help…. The remarkable hero story of this picture will share with us an autumn sorrow and a summer joy and will allow us to live through his fate and to keep silent about the meaning of life. What could be higher than human values, love and freedom? What could be closer to us than the Motherland? What could be more important for a person whose life can end at any moment?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: az
Release Date: 2019-04-19
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Black-and-White Nights
Overview: A classic and at the same time unrealistic and phantasmagoric love story with betrayal and hatred. A woman's ruthless hatred of her husband suddenly starts to surface in the programs of the TV channel she has co-founded with her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Ambassador of the Dawn
Overview: Tells the story of the life and multifaceted heritage of Mirza Fatali Akhundzadeh , the founder of Azerbaijani drama, a great public figure, who left an indelible mark on the history of Azerbaijani and Middle Eastern literature . The film depicts three periods of the playwright's life - childhood, youth and old age.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: az
Release Date: 2012-11-22
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Baku, I Love You
Overview: The film anthology includes 10 short films: "Asia", "Meeting", "Artist", "Yard", "Bahram Gur", "Lottery ticket", "Caspian Atlantis", "About love", "Aysel" and "Coincidence". Each screenplay in the project reflects different moments in the life of Baku. Short films bring to life relationships between people, their love and longing, happy and sad moments. The main hero uniting these people, relations and different moments of life is the city of Baku.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 2015-10-23
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Additional Effect
Overview: After the collapse of the Soviet power in the 90s, a chemist scientist in one of Azerbaijan's scientific research institutes obtains a new solution. The scientist examines the positive and negative consequences of the chemical solution. With its help, a certain part of a person's memory can be erased and used in negative activities. At the same time, it can protect people from drug addiction and alcoholism. But the results are not as expected.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: az
Release Date: 2010-11-27
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Salur Qazanın evi talandığı boy
Overview: The second of the series of films "Dede Qorqud Oguznameli".
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: az
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Boghach Khan Son of Dirse Khan
Overview: A full-length feature television film based on one of the 12 stories of "Dade Gorgud Dastani".
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: az
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Little Man in a Big War
Overview: The family of the director of the state farm lives in a small Uzbek village. One day, the nephew of the mother, Sanjar, appears in this hospitable family. The kind and impressionable Sappho, observing his cousin's connections with a thieving company, draws unpleasant conclusions for himself and makes completely independent decisions...
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-03-11
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Kitabi Dada Gorgud. Basat and Tepagoz
Overview: Aruz, who lost his son during migration, one day finds a strange creature with one eye on his head, brings him to the village and raises him as his own cub. Years pass, Aruz finds his missing son, and Grandpa Gorgud names him Basat. Tepegoz, who has already grown up and finished painting, starts eating people one day. When the people found out about this, they kicked Tepagöz out of the village. After Tepagoz's mother, the fairy, bathed him in the lake of Kir, he is no longer affected by weapons, and Tepagoz made a condition in front of the people that they should bring one man and 500 sheep every day. If not, he will raze the whole place to the ground. Seeing that Oban is in such a difficult situation, Dede Gorgud says, "Basat is the only solution." As a result of the dream he saw, Basat, who returned from his trip incomplete, tricks Tepegoz and defeats him and saves the people from trouble.
Genres: Animation History Fantasy
Original Language: az
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Cavid ömrü
Overview: The movie describes the last remaining years of the great Azerbaijani poet, Huseyn Javid who was the victim of 1937-1938 USSR repression.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: az
Release Date: 2007-04-07
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Nazlı
Overview: Nazli, despite being very intelligent and educated, prefers whims, luxurious living, night clubs, and an expensive lifestyle. Nazli's father Shamil is a serious businessman, faithful to tradition. He does everything he can to help his daughter start a family life. However, starting a family is not part of Nazli's plans. After Nazli's night out, Shamil's patience runs out. He sets a condition for his daughter: Either Nazli will get married, or Shamil will deprive his daughter of her wealth. After that, Nazli's adventures begin...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: az
Release Date: 2017-04-27
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