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Filmmaker · Azerbaijan

Latif Safarov

Died in 1963

Latif Safarov was born in Shusha on 30 September 1920. As a child he acted in several films between 1927 and 1931 and remained attached to the Baku studio. Trained at the teacher training school in Ganja, he became an assistant director at the studio, then entered the film institute in Moscow, from which he graduated in 1950. Elected in 1958 as head of the Azerbaijan filmmakers' union, he received the title of Honoured Artist in 1960, was removed from the leadership of the union and took his own life in Baku in December 1963, with a hunting rifle.

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