Jeyhun Mirzayev
Also Known As: Джейхун (Джейк) Мирзоев, Джейхун Мирзоев, Ceyhun Mirzəyev
Biography: Jeyhun Jamil oglu Mirzayev (Azerbaijani: Ceyhun Mirzəyev) was an Azerbaijani actor and film director. Mirzayev was born in the Gulabli village, in Aghdam, Azerbaijan, to Jamil Mirzayev and his second wife Margarita. He had a half-sister from his mother's previous marriage to Yusif Mammadaliyev's brother Ibrahim. Mirzayev's father died when he was three years old. Noted for his good performance skills, he became a child actor in 1955 when he acted in the film The Meeting. Three years later, at age 12, Mirzayev played the leading role of young Ismayil in the film Stepmother. He later graduated from Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts majoring in film directing. He was most notable for starring and directing an Azerbaijani war film The Squall in 1993. Mirzayev was expected to be on movie's opening but he died from sudden heart attack.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Aghdam, Azerbaijan
Adult: No
Birthday: April 09, 1946
Age: 79 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 05, 1993
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Black Gull

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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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The Humble Cemetery

Overview: The main character Vorobei is a professional grave digger and alcohol addict, who runs away from hospital to dig graves instead of treating his head broken by his brother. He comes to cemetery and keeps on working, instead of his friends' advice to stay in the hospital. The world of death turns out to be surrounded by corruption, satanic money-making, cemetery mafia and lots of vodka.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-12-01
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Matteo Falcone

Overview: Matteo Falcone is an Azerbaijani short drama film based on Prosper Merimée's like-named story from 1829. Matteo Falcone is a successful Corsican, who lives with his wife Giuseppa and 10-year-old son Fortunato. One day he leaves home with Giuseppa, leaving Fortunato alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1960-01-03
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The Road Story

Overview: After learning that his daughter is in love with a truck driver, corrupt Housing Office director tries to make use of his service in a last smuggle operation, then break his promise and marry her to someone else. This comedy is mainly about the dark sides of the Soviet bureucracy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1981-02-20
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Stepmother

Overview: The film is about the stepmother who tried to be a real mother of a boy. But she could be a real mother only after some difficult events for her and child.
Genres: Drama Romance Family
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1958-12-09
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The Meeting

Overview: The film is about Azerbaijanian and Uzbekistan's cotton-growers contest and about two young people's love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1955-12-25
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In the Name of the Law

Overview: The film is about the public prosecutor who fought against the criminality but was killed by them.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1968-12-01
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The Tempestuous Kura

Overview: After the novel of the same name of I.Shykhly. The film is about new intelligenzia in Azerbaijan at the beginning of the 20th century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1969-04-13
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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 Inquiry is Going On

Overview: After the novel "Sahil Amaliyyati" (The operation of "Side") of the same name of Jamshid Amirov. The film is about foreign secret service's operation and it's revelation by security organs.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1966-12-17
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Real Friend

Overview: The film is about two fishermen who went through difficult ordeal during the shipwreck.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1959-12-20
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Koroghlu

Overview: The heroic Koroghlu is a poor youngster who leads a peasants' revolt against the tyrannic Khan.
Genres: History War Romance Music
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1960-10-10
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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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The Invincible Battalion

Overview: The film is about events which has happened with the "Potyomkin" ship.
Genres: Drama History History War
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1965-12-19
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The Scream

Overview: Shot during the Nagorno-Karabakh War, "Fəryad" is only one of its kind. Following the Khojaly Massacre, Ismayil, an officer tasked with collecting the bodies, crosses enemy lines to avenge the brutal murder of a local schoolgirl. There he gets captured by Armenians and waits for the day to be exchanged for an enemy POW.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: az
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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