Rasim Balayev

Rasim Balayev

Birthday: 1948-08-08

Place of Birth: Aghsu, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR

Biography: Rasim Akhmed oglu Balayev is an Azerbaijani cinema and theatrical actor. He starred in the leading roles in more than 60 Azerbaijani films. Rasim Balayev was born on 8 August 1948 in Aghsu region of Azerbaijan. At the age of 15-16, he got involved in theater performances. Being from rural area, Rasim's family attempted to push him to choose a different career, though he never did and got enrolled in Azerbaijani Institute of Arts, from which he graduated in 1969. The actor's first film experience on big screen came with a short role in the film "Stars don't die away". Rasim Balayev's fame came after his part in 3 movies and participation in two film festivals: the 7th Soviet festival in Baku and 3rd International festival in Tashkent where he received an award for Best Actor and several proposals for main roles in future movies. Among his best performances are films Nasimi, Babek, The Scoundrel, Anecdote, and The Bat.

Movies

The Rider with Lightning in His Hand
The Rider with Lightning in His Hand

About the feat of Komsomol member Vera Flerova (her prototype in the film is Natasha), the discovere...

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The Lonely Businessman's Big Score
The Lonely Businessman's Big Score

A movie about a little man - a little funny and a little sad - a Latino businessman, owner of a loss...

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The Bat
The Bat

In a Azerbaijan, in the beginning of this century, the first films made in the history of cinema are...

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The Bay of Happiness
The Bay of Happiness

The film is about the first oil-well in the world in the world in the 1920th....

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Old Men, Old Men...
Old Men, Old Men...

Follows the old man who retired, unable to adapt to city life, and his return to the village....

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Mountain Novella
Mountain Novella

About the life of a high-mountain village in Checheno-Ingushetia. The heroine of the film is a young...

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Steepness
Steepness

Follows the young collective farm chairman Kazbek, a supporter of the revival of mountain farming....

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Black Volga
Black Volga

The film talks about countless crimes committed by the criminal group led by "Panjali Aslan" and eve...

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Nasimi
Nasimi

The film is a biographical true story about life of Imadaddin Nasimi, well known throughout the East...

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Babek
Babek

It is an epic movie about an Azerbaijani martur-hero who revolted against the Arab invasion of the 7...

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Interrogation
Interrogation

The investigator Seyfi Ganiyev runs the case of an illegal mercery shop's head Murad Abiyev, who con...

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Saddle these Horses
Saddle these Horses

The film is about Gachag Nabi's heroism....

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The Stab in the Back
The Stab in the Back

Young inspector investigates a murder in small town....

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Fortress
Fortress

A drama about a film crew making a movie in an isolated mountain town famous for its ancient fortres...

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The Jinn in Microdistrict
The Jinn in Microdistrict

The events in the film take place in one of the modern cities. The editor-in-chief Rustam Agayev (Eg...

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Business and Pleasure
Business and Pleasure

Mustafa works as a guide in Shaki (the city in Azerbaijan) and decides traveling to Turkey for makin...

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A Country House for One Family
A Country House for One Family

On the seashore, the mother and father decided to build a country house where their three sons, daug...

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The Devil under the Windshield
The Devil under the Windshield

A journalist is investigating a group of poachers who are illegally selling the huge amounts of fish...

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The Joke
The Joke

Made in the tragic comedy genre, this film is about the dysfunctional Soviet management system in Az...

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Dada Gorgud
Dada Gorgud

Legend of Azerbaijanian people "Kitabi Dada - Gorgud" is about damatic events, about Dada Gorgud....

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Firangiz
Firangiz

The secretary of the district committee, Firangiz, is cautious and demanding, as well as very harsh ...

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The Price of Happiness
The Price of Happiness

Rukhsara and her son Ibrahim are very concerned about the future of their five daughters growing up...

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The Tale of the Old Oak Tree
The Tale of the Old Oak Tree

The film raises the problem of man's relationship to nature, the symbol of which is an old oak tree,...

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The Scoundrel
The Scoundrel

Film exposes the corruption and the decadence of the late Soviet bureaucracy in Azerbaijan SSR throu...

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The Diversion
The Diversion

After fulfilling his duty in Afghan War, Zaur returns to his home Baku. He is trying to clarify the ...

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The Avenger of Ganjabasar
The Avenger of Ganjabasar

The film is about the rebellion in Ganja in 1919-1920 at the head of Gatir Mammad....

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An Ice in a Warm Sea
An Ice in a Warm Sea

The old shipyard repairman ust-Nazar returned to work after an illness. They were already preparing ...

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The Special Visit to German Clinic
The Special Visit to German Clinic

Baku, Year 1920. Secret agent of the Emergency Commission Engineer Mammad Rustamov is sent to Berlin...

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Hotel Room
Hotel Room

The film chronicles the ordeals faced by Azerbaijan’s intellectuals - from the Red Terror to the pre...

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The Basement
The Basement

After many years of effort and patience, she failed to save her family. She watched with pain as her...

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Wait for Me
Wait for Me

The film is about village boy who became an enlisment officer and came back to Garabagh and fell in ...

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Don't Step in-He'll Kill You
Don't Step in-He'll Kill You

The film is about fellows spending time on the shore and about some events....

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There, Where the Rivers Merge
There, Where the Rivers Merge

A man goes to prison for years for a crime his cousin committed. After his release he moves to his n...

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An Old Ferry
An Old Ferry

The story of the conversion of uncultivated lands in one of the Azerbaijani villages into vineyards,...

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This Wonderful, Wonderful World
This Wonderful, Wonderful World

After the country transitions to a market economy, the psychiatric hospital is left without funding....

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The First Hour of Life
The First Hour of Life

The film is about oilmen having different ideals and decisions, were also based on this same ideolog...

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Unusual Hunt
Unusual Hunt

The film is devoted problems of protection of ecology....

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The Day after Tomorrow at Midnight
The Day after Tomorrow at Midnight

After the novel of the same name of M. Avdiyev and A. Donets. The film is about first operations of ...

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Additional Trace
Additional Trace

A young woman has been murdered in one of the apartments. Prosecutor Babaev goes to the scene of the...

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The Native Shores
The Native Shores

The film is about frontier-guards who averts the diversion in hydroelectric power station which was ...

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Broken Bridges
Broken Bridges

The plot of film is constructed on the basis of memoirs of the son and mother. They were divided wit...

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The Witness
The Witness

The film tells a story about non-democratic and non-legal social events in the country of Azerbaijan...

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The Turned World
The Turned World

The joint struggle of the Azerbaijani and Iranian police against the forces organizing international...

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Tale of the Lonely Pomegranate Tree
Tale of the Lonely Pomegranate Tree

After the story of the same name of Akram Aylisli....

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The Stars Don't Fade
The Stars Don't Fade

The film consists of several novels reproducing the most vivid pages of the biography of the first C...

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Straight to the Volcano
Straight to the Volcano

After the novellette of the same name of Mehdi Huseyn....

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Wäre die Erde nicht rund...
Wäre die Erde nicht rund...

While studying in Moscow, the GDR resident Christiane falls in love with Hatem, a fellow student fro...

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Goodbye Schmidt!
Goodbye Schmidt!

“Goodbye Schmidt!”. A movie, which deeply hints, even though it doesn’t make to think about…* Emil...

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Black & White Nights
Black & White Nights

A classic and at the same time unrealistic and phantasmagoric love story with betrayal and hatred. A...

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Ambassador of the Dawn
Ambassador of the Dawn

Tells the story of the life and multifaceted heritage of Mirza Fatali Akhundzadeh , the founder of A...

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Baku, I Love You
Baku, I Love You

The film anthology includes 10 short films: "Asia", "Meeting", "Artist", "Yard", "Bahram Gur", "Lott...

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Additional Effect
Additional Effect

After the collapse of the Soviet power in the 90s, a chemist scientist in one of Azerbaijan's scient...

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Salur Qazanın evi talandığı boy
Salur Qazanın evi talandığı boy

The second of the series of films "Dede Qorqud Oguznameli"....

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Boghach Khan Son of Dirse Khan
Boghach Khan Son of Dirse Khan

A full-length feature television film based on one of the 12 stories of "Dade Gorgud Dastani"....

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Little Man in a Big War
Little Man in a Big War

The family of the director of the state farm lives in a small Uzbek village. One day, the nephew of ...

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Kitabi Dada Gorgud. Basat and Tepagoz
Kitabi Dada Gorgud. Basat and Tepagoz

Aruz, who lost his son during migration, one day finds a strange creature with one eye on his head, ...

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Cavid ömrü
Cavid ömrü

The movie describes the last remaining years of the great Azerbaijani poet, Huseyn Javid who was the...

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Nazlı
Nazlı

Nazli, despite being very intelligent and educated, prefers whims, luxurious living, night clubs, an...

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Даймохк
Даймохк

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Sorry, I Couldn’t Come
Sorry, I Couldn’t Come

The film reflects the events that took place after the prisoners in a nearby prison heard the news o...

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Biz qayıdacağıq
Biz qayıdacağıq

The film depicts the events of a family - a mother and two children - against the backdrop of the co...

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Bəyaz həyat
Bəyaz həyat

The film tells the story of the love affair between the son of the secretary of state, Riyad, and th...

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You Are Always With Me
You Are Always With Me

Nargila's "unrequited" love for the factory director Hasanzadeh, who is deprived of paternal care an...

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Sound of the Pipe
Sound of the Pipe

The novelette was written by I.Huseynov. In the film, the problem of war is viewed from the perspec...

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Garden Season
Garden Season

The film tells the story that takes place in one of the gardens of Baku, about an honest bus driver,...

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Trap
Trap

The film takes place in Karabakh, where Baku students come to help build a settlement for refugees. ...

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Etiraf
Etiraf

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Demons Prison
Demons Prison

"Qudrat" returns to his village after many years and decides to marry his beloved girl "Tali". "Tali...

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