FILM DIRECTOR

Rustam Ibragimbekov

1939 - 2022

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Rustam Mammad Ibrahim oghlu Ibrahimbeyov (or Ibrahimbekov; Azerbaijani: Rüstəm Məmməd İbrahim oğlu İbrahimbəyov; Russian: Рустам Мамед Ибрагим оглы Ибрагимбеков; 5 February 1939 – 11 March 2022) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani screenwriter, playwright and producer, well known beyond his home Azerbaijan and the former Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rustam Ibragimbekov has received more than 76,888 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Rustam Ibragimbekov is the 840th most popular film director (up from 900th in 2019), the 92nd most popular biography from Azerbaijan (down from 91st in 2019) and the most popular Azerbaijani Film Director.

Rustam Ibragimbekov is an Azerbaijani-Russian screenwriter and film producer who is most famous for his collaboration with the director Sergei Bodrov on the films "Prisoner of the Mountains" and "Brother." He won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1996 for "Prisoner of the Mountains," which explored the relationship between Russian soldiers and Chechen rebels during the First Chechen War.

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  • 50.10

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Rustam Ibragimbekov has had the most page views in the with 31,324 views, followed by Azerbaijani (9,701), and English (7,556). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ukrainian (332.35%), Egyptian Arabic (16.42%), and Belarusian (11.68%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Rustam Ibragimbekov ranks 840 out of 2,041. Before him are Timothy Treadwell, Mick Jackson, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Hong Sang-soo, Raoul Coutard, and Benjamin Christensen. After him are Rosa von Praunheim, Alexander Rou, Luis Puenzo, Sergio Martino, András Kovács, and Dara Singh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Rustam Ibragimbekov ranks 313. Before him are Irán Eory, Renate Boy, János Göröcs, Robert Herbin, Vaçe Zela, and David Frost. After him are Abdelmajid Chetali, Lidiya Skoblikova, Jean-Pierre Chevènement, Livio Berruti, Marie-Claire Blais, and Carlos Alberto Silva. Among people deceased in 2022, Rustam Ibragimbekov ranks 280. Before him are Eva-Maria Hagen, Bill Nieder, Sacheen Littlefeather, Georgi Atanasov, Dragan Tomić, and Hushang Ebtehaj. After him are Yoshio Kikugawa, Nora Nova, Carlos Amigo Vallejo, Steinar Amundsen, Herbert Mullin, and Clarence Gilyard.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Rustam Ibragimbekov ranks 92 out of 232. Before him are Mikayil Mushfig (1908), Bella Davidovich (1928), Zakir Hasanov (1959), Aziza Mustafa Zadeh (1969), Akram Aylisli (1937), and Ayna Sultanova (1895). After him are Mirza Khazar (1947), Zuleykha Seyidmammadova (1919), Galina Bystrova (1934), Hamida Javanshir (1873), Arsen Avakov (1964), and Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (1947).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Azerbaijan

Among film directors born in Azerbaijan, Rustam Ibragimbekov ranks 1. After him are John M. Stahl (1886).

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Filmography

Burnt by the Sun
Director
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call...
May 1o 19947 / 10
The White Sun of the Desert
Director
The setting is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (today's Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in Russian Asia for a number of years. After being hospitalised and then demobbed, he sets off home to join his wife, only to be caught up in a desert fight between a Red Army cavalry unit and Basmachi guerrillas. The cavalry unit commander, Rahimov, "convinces" Sukhov to help, temporarily, with the protection of abandoned women of the Basmachi guerrilla leader Abdullah's harem. Leaving a young Red Army soldier, Petrukha, to assist Sukhov with the task, Rahimov and his cavalry unit set out to pursue fleeing Abdullah.Sukhov and women from Abdullah's harem return to a nearby shore town. Soon, looking for a seaway across the border, Abdullah and his gang come to the same town...
Dec 14o 19697.2 / 10
The Barber of Siberia
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Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.
Nov 11o 19987.1 / 10