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Filmmaker · Azerbaijan

Abbas Mirza Sharifzadeh

Died in 1938

Abbas Mirza Sharifzadeh was born in Shamakhi on 22 March 1893, into a family of intellectuals who settled in Baku after the earthquake of 1902. On stage from 1908, he made his name in 1911 in the role of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, joined the Hajibeyov brothers' company in 1916 as a stage director, and in 1927 was the first Hamlet on an Azerbaijani stage. A film actor from 1916, he moved into directing in the mid-twenties and is regarded as the first national film director. Arrested in 1937 and sentenced for espionage, he was shot in Baku on 16 November 1938.

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