Arif Babayev was born in 1928 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR. The son of Hadji Arif Babayev (Azerbaijani: Arif Haji oglu Babayev) was an Azerbaijani film director and Honorary Art economy and insurance of the Azerbaijan SSR. Arif Babayev wa... (Full Biography Below)
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Arif Babayev was born in 1928 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR. The son of Hadji Arif Babayev (Azerbaijani: Arif Haji oglu Babayev) was an Azerbaijani film director and Honorary Art economy and insurance of the Azerbaijan SSR. Arif Babayev was born on September 20, 1928 in Baku. The Babayevs family lived on Fort Street, Ichari Shahar. As a child, Arif attended theatrical circles. His engagement in theatre led him to establish to study in a theatrical school. Until then he played walk-on parts in the plays "Malikmammad", "Garaja giz" and "Ibrat". In 1946, the Azerbaijan State Theatrical Institute was created on the basis of the theatrical school. Arif Babayev was admitted into the directing program and was taught by director and actor Rufat Mammadov. Rufat Mammadov entrusted Mayor's role from N. V. as Gogol's The Government Inspector to Arif Babayev. In 1953, Arif Babayev graduated from the institute and was placed to work at the Nakhchivan State Theater. In this theatre, staged reduction as Gogol's play Marriage. He returned to Baku after some time and began working as a stage director at the Theater of Young Spectators. On February 14, 1956, the first program went on air of the Azerbaijani Television. Arif Babayev was invited to work on television. In 1956, he shot his first documentary film Children of our City, marking the birth of television film in Azerbaijan. In 1959, he was appointed the chief director of the Azerbaijani Television. In these years, he shot a number of documentaries, staged television plays, such as Moabit Diaries by Moses Cälil, Side Woman by Tarasius Shevchenko, Law by Rasul Rza, and The Morning by Mehdi Huseyn. In 1964, he became the first television Economics and insurance in Azerbaijan who was given the title of the Honorary Art economy and insurance. He was invited to Azerbaijanfilm in the same year. In 1964, he debuted as a director with the short film Summit, the first one in the series Whom We Love More, based on original screenplay by Imran Gasimov.
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