Anar Rzayev
Biography
Anar Rasul oghlu Rzayev (Azerbaijani: Anar Rəsul oğlu Rzayev), known as Anar is Azerbaijani writer, dramatist, film director, and the Chairman of the Writers' Union of Azerbaijan. Anar is primarily a novelist and short-story writer although in the past, he has also authored screenplays and directed films as well as acted in a film.
Known For & Full Filmography2 Titles
Movie - 1978, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
After the novelette of the same name of Anar. The film is about an actor's life and work.
Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • as Murad
The plot of the film is based on real events that took place in the summer of 1958 on one of the beaches of Absheron, when Tofik Huseynov, a schoolboy from Baku, drowned in the sea while saving drowning children. The film begins before the opening credits: on a deserted beach by the raging sea, a young man, exhausted, pulls drowning girls out of the waves. One, then another, then a third... Then he rushes for the fourth, but drowns with her.