Rustam Ibragimbekov

Rüstəm İbrahimbəyov or Rustam Mamed Ibrahimbekow (Russian Рустам Ибрагимбеков; born January 5, 1939 in Baku ) is an Azerbaijani writer, screenwriter and film producer.

Life

Rustam Ibrahimbekov studied at the Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry and later at the WGIK in Moscow. He is a screenwriter of The White Sun of the Desert ( Beloje Solnze pustyni, 1970), who was a cult film in the former USSR, as well as other popular movies like Save me, my talisman ( menja Chrani, moi talisman, 1986) and The Barber of Siberia ( Sibirsky Zirjulnik, 1998).

He also wrote the screenplay for the film The sun, which deceives us ( Utomljonnye solnzem, 1994), which was awarded a prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995 and won an Oscar as best foreign language film.

Rustam Ibrahimbekov was chairman of the Association of Filmmakers, secretary of the Russian Union of Filmmakers and is a member of the European Film Academy.

Filmography

• 2008: Alexander the Crusaders ( Alexandr. Newskaja Bitwa )