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Sep 30, 1920 Shusha, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, Azerbaijan Died on 12 Dec 1963 (aged 43)
Soviet film director
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About Latif Safarov
- Latif Bashir oglu Safarov (Azerbaijani: L?tif S?f?rov) (30 September 1920, Shusha – 9 December 1963, Baku) was an Azerbaijani actor and movie director. Safarov began his career in acting at a very young age.
- He starred in a number of children's movies released in 1927–1931 (Sevil, Latif, etc.).
- In 1939, he graduated from the Ganja School of Pedagogy.
- For the next two years was continued acting along as serving as an assistant director at the Baku Movie Studio (renamed to Azerbaijanfilm in 1960).
- In 1950, he graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, receiving B.A.
- in Film Directing.The 1955 film Bakhtiyar (starring Rashid Behbudov) directed by Safarov was his most significant project.
- It was followed by two other well-known films, Under the Broiling Sun (1957) and Leyli and Majnun (1962).
- In 1958, Safarov was elected head of the Azerbaijani Union of Cinematographers.
- He was granted the emeritus title of the Honorary Art Worker of Azerbaijan in 1960.
- In 1955, he married singer Shovkat Alakbarova.
- Together they had two children. In 1963, Safarov committed suicide by shooting himself with a hunting rifle.
- At that time, he was working on his film project The Island of Miracles.
