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Gamar Salamzade

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Gamar Salamzade
Born
Qəmər Əliqulu qızı Salamzadə

(1908-05-05)5 May 1908
Died20 April 1994(1994-04-20) (aged 85)
NationalityAzerbaijani
Occupation(s)film director, screenwriter
Known forfirst Azerbaijani female film director
Notable work"Rampant Band"

Gamar Ali Kuli gizi Salamzade (Azerb.: Qəmər Əliqulu qızı Salamzadə, 5 May 1908, Julfa, Nakhchivan – 20 April 1994, Baku) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet film director and screenwriter. She was the first Azerbaijani female film director[1] and the creator of the first children’s film in Azerbaijan.[2]

Life

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Gamar Salamzade was born on 5 May 1908 in Julfa, Nakhchivan.[3] In 1912 her family moved to Tbilisi where in 1919 her father, a famous poet Aligulu Gamkusar, was killed by Mensheviks.[4] After graduating from the Azerbaijan Pedagogical Institute, Salamzade in 1929 went to study at the Moscow State College of Cinematography learning from Lev Kuleshov and Sergei Eisenstein.[3] She took an internship with film director Alexander Dovzhenko.[4]

After completing her education, Salamzade returned to Baku in 1931-32 and studied at the graduate school together with director Rza Tahmasib, artists Salam Salamzade and Rustam Mustafayev. During this period, she wrote scripts for the films Natavan and Nizami.[4]

Career

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In 1935 Salamzade became the second director of the silent film Dancing Turtles, based on the story of Abdullah Shaikh "The Playing Tortoise".[4] Another film she co-directed with Alexander Popov was The Naughty Gang (1937).[5] The film was considered lost for many years until it was rediscovered in Russian State Film Fund and shown to Azerbaijani audience in 2008.[2]

After starting a career as a director, she was appointed assistant director of the film Golden Shrub and became an assistant director of the film Weak People.[4]

Salamzade’s main activity in the “Azerbaijan” film studio began when Mehdi Hussein headed this organization in 1944.[6] She became the screenwriter and director of the documentary Song of Healing about a doctor Husniyya Diyarova.[4]

In 1946, Salamzada had an internship at the Mosfilm studios in the firm Life of Flowers dedicated to Ivan Michurin.[2]

Among other dozens of Salamzade’s films should be mentioned Handless People, 26 Baku Commissars, Rampant Band, Azerbaijan – Order Bearer, Sabukhi and One Family. She also dubbed Azerbaijani films.[7]

Salamzade is an author of the book The world seen through a small window.[3]

Gamar Salamzade died in 1994 in Baku at the age of 86.[4]

Personal life

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Gamar Salamzade was married to People’s Artist Salam Salamzade and had two daughters.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Малышев, Владимир (2019-05-28). Кинематограф Азербайджана и ВГИК (in Russian). Litres. ISBN 978-5-04-173674-3.
  2. ^ a b c "Azərbaycan uşaq filminin banisi - ilk qadın kinorejissor Qəmər Salamzadə..." Baki-Xeber.com (in Azerbaijani). 2015-09-03. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  3. ^ a b c "Tarixdə bu gün: 5 may". www.trt.net.tr. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "Satirik şairin kinorejissor qızı". medeniyyet.az. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  5. ^ Serqqapisi. "Azərbaycan Kinosu Günü qeyd olunub". www.serqqapisi.az (in Azerbaijani). Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  6. ^ a b "Azərbaycanın ilk qadın kinorejissoru". www.kaspi.az (in Azerbaijani). Archived from the original on 2017-04-02. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  7. ^ "О Гамер Саламзаде необходимо снять фильм – киноисторик Айдын Кязимзаде". Trend.Az (in Russian). 2008-02-29. Retrieved 2020-11-07.