Rza Takhmasib was born in 1894 in Nakhichevan, Nakhichevan uezd, Erivanskaya guberniya, Russian Empire. Rza Abbasgulu son Tahmasib (Azerbaijani: Rza Tahmasib) was an Azerbaijani film director and actor. Tahmasib was born Rza Tahmasibbeyov ... (Full Biography Below)
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Rza Takhmasib was born in 1894 in Nakhichevan, Nakhichevan uezd, Erivanskaya guberniya, Russian Empire. Rza Abbasgulu son Tahmasib (Azerbaijani: Rza Tahmasib) was an Azerbaijani film director and actor. Tahmasib was born Rza Tahmasibbeyov to a wealthy merchant family. He received his primary education at Maktab-I Tarbiyya school in Nakhchivan, where he learned Russian, Persian and Arabic. He continued his education at a three-year Russian school in his hometown. His interest to theatre was invoked by actor Huseyn Arablinski who was touring Nakhchivan with his troupe in 1907. In 1910 he left for Tbilisi where he studied at a School of Commerce and joined an Amateur actors' club at Shaitan Bazaar. Constantly travelling between Nakhchivan, Tbilisi and Erivan, he often participate in both Amateur and professional theatre activities in all of the three cities. In 1918, Tahmasib moved to Baku to enter the program of Oriental Studies at the Azerbaijan State University. That same year he got married and had a son (who soon died by drowning in the Volga River), but the marriage did not last long. In his final year of university, Tahmasib enabled state to the program of Education. In 1933 he was invited by Sergei Eisenstein to Moscow to pursue a degree in film directing at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography and accepted the invitation, having been involved in theatre throughout the 1920s. In 1934 he married a widowed primary school teacher and had three more children. In 1943, Tahmasib directed the movie Sabuhi (1943), a tribute to writer and philosopher Mirza Fatali Akhundov. However, Tahmasib's celebrated masterpiece is considered to be the musical comedy "The Cloth Peddler" (1945), which was a screen adaptation of Uzeyir Hadjibeyov's operetta of the same name, composed in 1913. The film was a success not only in Azerbaijan, but throughout the Soviet Union. For directing The Fabric Peddler, Tahmasib received the Stalin prism in 1946. In 1947 Tahmasib acquired a Ph. d. degree and taught at the Azerbaijan Institute of Theatre. He also translated plays and theatre-related research articles from Russian to Azeri. His other films include The Lights of Baku (1950), in which Tahmasib himself starred, A Song Is Created Thus (1959) and One Can Forgive Him? (1960).
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