Biography
Rustam Mammad Ibrahim oglu Ibragimbekov (Azerbaijani: Rüstəm İbrahimbəyov; Russian: Рустам Ибрагимбеков; born 5 February 1939) is a Soviet, Azerbaijani screenwriter, dramatist and producer, well known beyond his home Azerbaijan and the former Soviet Union. He is the chair of the Cinematographers' Union of Azerbaijan and director of the Ibrus Theatre. Rustam Ibrahimbeyov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR. His father was a professor of art history who hailed from Shamakhi. Ibrahimbeyov is the youn...
Complete Filmography

A Trap for the Ghost
2011
Director, Writer, Producer
A love story between a middle-aged French theater director and a young Azerbaijani actress. He's achieved success and fame, heads a theater, ladies ad...

Грозное время
2010
Writer

The Other Bank
2009
Adaptation
Life creates many obstacles for 12 years old boy - Tedo. Tedo belongs to the generation, which was forced to mass displacement because of the civil wa...

Alexander: The Neva Battle
2008
Producer
Young prince Aleksandr has to hold out against two enemies - the Horde in the east and the Teutonic order and Sweden in the west. He discovers that so...

Birds of Paradise
2008
Screenplay
The events of the film take place in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. It is forbidden to listen to foreign radio stations, it is not safe to voice...

3 Girls
2007
Producer
The plot of the film is based on three love stories. The events take place in Moscow, Baku and Africa, but most of them are related to the Azerbaijani...

Broken Bridges
2006
Screenplay
A fading country music star returns to his hometown, where he reunites with his childhood sweetheart and also meets his 16-year-old daughter for the f...

Good Bye, Southern City
2006
Screenplay, Producer
The film takes place in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku at the end of the 1980s. At this time, the Soviet Union was starting to fall apart, and with t...

Anna
2005
Screenplay
The film is based on Ostrovsky's play "Guilty without Guilt", but the action of the film has been transferred to our time. The main character is not a...

Nomad: The Warrior
2005
Screenplay, Producer
The Nomad is a historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan. The film is a fictionalised account of the youth and coming-of-age of Ablai Khan, as he...

Broken Bridges
2004
Screenplay, Producer
The plot of film is constructed on the basis of memoirs of the son and mother. They were divided with border between northern and southern Azerbaijan.

The Night Is Bright
2004
Screenplay
Two young teachers In a home for deaf-mute and blind children decide to see if the children they are in charge of are capable of falling in love, but ...

I Planned to Escape
2004
Writer
Oleg learns the intricacies of working in a bank, and here he meets the manager Veta. They begin a romance that will change the lives of both. Veta dr...

The Wizard
2002
Screenplay
Local healer embarks on the path of revenge against the Russian Bolsheviks who captured his native village, establishing their own rules there.

The Heart of the Bear
2001
Screenplay
A young Estonian goes to the Siberian Taiga to live as a hunter in a remote forest hut. He hopes to find his true self far from civilisation. The nati...

East/West
1999
Screenplay
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician a...

The Barber of Siberia
1998
Screenplay
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wild...
The Family
1998
Director, Screenplay
January 1990, Baku. The Soviet Union hasn't collapsed yet. Around 300 thousand Azeri have been forsed out from their homes in Armenia and Daghlig Gara...

Business and Pleasure
1995
Screenplay
Mustafa works as a guide in Shaki (the city in Azerbaijan) and decides traveling to Turkey for making a trade to get some money. When his spouse and h...

Burnt by the Sun
1994
Screenplay
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and othe...

Dyuba-Dyuba
1993
Producer
Andrei's ex-girlfriend Tania (Anzhela Belyanskaya) has been constantly in danger of going to jail since he knew her. Their breakup was not his doing, ...

To See Paris and Die
1992
Producer
In Russia in the late 1960s, Elena will do anything to see that her son Yuri succeeds as a pianist: she longs for him to win a competition that will s...

Waltz of Golden Taurusus
1992
Director
Two school friends have not seen each other for twenty years. During this time, one became an aircraft engineer, the other a gold digger. Quite by ch...

Close to Eden
1991
Screenplay
A farmer and his wife live in a rural part of Inner Mongolia with their three children. Chinese population control policies prevent them from having a...

Auto Stop
1991
Screenplay
Incredible adventures of an Italian test auto-racer in the exotic and so unpredictable Russia! Originally, this film was made as a commercial for the ...

Seven Days After the Murder
1991
Screenplay
A terrible tragedy occurs in the family of a famous general: one of his daughters is killed. The investigator leading the case understands that an out...

If I Die, Forgive Me
1989
Screenplay
A soldier recently returned home finds it hard to scrape by, and the girl he loved married.

Savage
1989
Writer
The movie is set in the early fifties in a provincial Uzbek town. Fear and alienation have penetrated this once cozy town. The hero of the film, teena...

Free Fall
1988
Screenplay
Having once again successfully performed at the competition, five paratroopers, seeing off one of their friends to the airport, witnessed the collecti...

The Spy
1987
Writer
1916: on the verge of being evicted from his apartment, unable to find a job, with a desperate wife and a sick child, a man wrestles with his conscien...

Slap in the Face That Wasn't
1987
Writer

Another Life
1987
Screenplay
Psychological drama about a university dean who leads a double life.

Guard Me, My Talisman
1986
Screenplay
The setting for this off-beat drama of love and jealousy is the Pushkin Poetry Festival in Boldino. Liosha and his wife Tania are walking through the ...

She Likes Me
1986
Writer
A young doctor, Rustam, works in an ambulance. The hero, who is in love with Nargis, who used to practice with him, finds out that she is marrying his...

One Evening
1985
Writer

Park
1984
Screenplay, Novel
Marat meets a girl named Vika in St. Petersburg.The girl wants Marat to take her to Baku. Marat’s love for Vika is growing day by day. The movie is ab...

Mystery of the Ship Clock
1983
Screenplay
"The Mystery of the Ship's Watchman" (Azerbaijani: 'Gemi saatinin sirri') is a Ukrainian-Azerbaijani Soviet feature film directed by Azerbaijani direc...

Seven Beauties
1982
Writer
Based on the music of the famous Azerbaijani composer Kara Karayev. The ballet libretto is based on the poem “Seven Beauties” (Khamsa) by Nizami Ganja...

Business Trip
1982
Screenplay
After the story of the same name of Rustam Ibrahimbeyov.

One Thousand and One Nights
1981
Writer
One day, returning from hunting to the palace, King Shakhriyar witnessed an unbridled orgy of courtiers, in the center of which was his beloved wife N...

In Front of a Closed Door
1981
Screenplay

Structure of the Moment
1980
Screenplay

With Shared Love
1980
Writer
The Russian Kostya and the Bulgarian Petko work at two different sites of a gas pipeline spanning the whole length of the Soviet Union. Just of a few ...

Interrogation
1979
Screenplay
The investigator Seyfi Ganiyev runs the case of an illegal mercery shop's head Murad Abiyev, who confessed in embezzlement of one million rubles from ...

Risk Strategy
1978
Screenplay
A story about an oil worker who went from the head of a geological exploration expedition to the chief geologist of the trust.

A Country House for One Family
1978
Screenplay
On the seashore, the mother and father decided to build a country house where their three sons, daughter, daughters-in-law and grandchildren could gat...

The Birthday Party
1977
Screenplay
This lyrical psychological film is about true friendship. The characters in the film are contemporaries in of late 1970s Azerbaijan SSR with differing...

One Fine Day
1977
Director, Screenplay
A film almanac consisting of two short stories, united by a common idea of the need to maintain harmony between private and public interests: “Suite” ...

Oh, Heart... Heart
1976
Screenplay

Crime: Deception
1976
Co-Writer

Pages of Life
1974
Writer
It consists of 3 short stories: "Rivals", "Baladadash's First Love" and "Song Lesson"

And Then I Said No
1973
Screenplay
A group of boys are growing up in a small Russian town during the first years after WWII.

A Quiet Day at the End of the War
1970
Screenplay
As WWII comes to a close, a wounded Soviet soldier and a Kazak woman seek refuge in a church. In this holy place, they take time to rest and appreciat...

The White Sun of the Desert
1969
Screenplay
The setting is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (today's Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in Ru...

A Tale of a Chekist
1969
Screenplay
At the end of 1943, during the occupation in Odessa, a new specialist Kraft arrives at the shipyard and soon becomes a chief engineer. It never occur...

In a Southern Town
1969
Screenplay, Original Concept
Murad, a young man, lives by the old ethical norms that are still valid in the suburbs of his city. He had promised Tofig, his childhood friend, to gi...