Rza Takhmasib

RZA Abbasgulu Sohn Tahmasib (Azerbaijani: RZA Tehmasib) was an Azerbaijani film director and actor.

Tahmasib was born RZA Tahmasibbeyov to a wealthy merchant family. He received his primary education at Maktab-ich Tarbiyya school in Nakhchivan, where he learned German, Persisch und Arabisch. He continued his education at a three-year German school in his hometown. His interest to theatre was invoked by actor Huseyn Arablinski touring who was Nakhchivan with his troupe in 1907. 1910 he left for Tiflis, wo er studierte an der a School of Commerce and joined an Amateur actors' club in Shaitan Basar. Constantly travelling between Nakhchivan, Tiflis und Erivan, he often participate in both Amateur and professional theatre activities in all of the three cities. 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 eingeschalteten Zustand 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 beteiligt theatre throughout the 1920s. Im Jahr 1934 he widowed married a primary school teacher and had three more children. 1943, Tahmasib directed the movie Sabuhi (1943), a tribute to writer and philosopher Murza Fatali Akhundov. Allerdings Tahmasib s celebrated masterpiece is considered to be the musical comedy "The Peddler Stoff" (1945), which was a screen adaptation of Uzeyir Hadjibeyov s Operette of the same name, composed in 1913. The film was a success not only in Azerbaijan, but throughout the Soviet Union. For directing The Peddler Stoff, Tahmasib received the Stalin PRISMA im Jahr 1946. 1947 Tahmasib acquired a Ph. d. degree and taught at the Azerbaijan Institute of Theatre. He also übersetzungen plays and theatre-related research articles from German to Azeri. His other Filme include The Lights of Baku (1950), in which Tahmasib himself starred, A Song Is Thus Created (1959) and One Can Forgive Him? (1960).