Acting
Rasim Balayev
Born August 8, 1948 · Agsu District, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan]
Died March 29, 2026 · aged 77
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 …
Known For
The Stars Don't Fade · 1971The Stars Don't Fade
★ 9.01971
MovieDramaHistory
The film consists of several novels reproducing the most vivid pages of the biography of the first Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Azerbaijan Nariman Narimanov (1870-1925).
Cümhuriyyətin 9 şəkli · 2018Cümhuriyyətin 9 şəkli
2018
MovieHistoryDrama
Dedicated to the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.
The Basement · 1990The Basement
1990
MovieDramaRomance
After many years of effort and patience, she failed to save her family. She watched with pain as her husband, an architect by training, was ruining his life with idleness and melancholy. Unable to bear the boredom of life together, she leaves home...
Nasimi · 1974Nasimi
★ 7.41974
MovieDramaHistory
The film is a biographical true story about life of Imadaddin Nasimi, well known throughout the East for his school of philosophy and thought, poems and promotion of moral values in a feudal society. During the 14th-15th centuries, when Azerbaijan was a stage for warring powers and civil wars, Nasimi was the only poet committed to promotion of humanism and moral values inflicting criticism on the ruling system and the society itself. For his intruding role in feudal regimes, Nasimi lived a complex and tragic life.
The Lonely Businessman's Big Score · 1984The Lonely Businessman's Big Score
★ 7.51984
MovieDrama
A movie about a little man - a little funny and a little sad - a Latino businessman, owner of a loss-making shop. And about a big moral problem. A child has fallen down a deep well. He's alive, but it's almost impossible to get him out. What is more dignified: to honestly say that the child is alive but already dead or to repeat for everyone the mantra "he will certainly be rescued now"? And how to live on, if in the heat of an argument, bet on "will not be saved".
Black & White Nights · 2013Black & White Nights
★ 4.72013
MovieDramaFantasy
A classic and at the same time unrealistic and phantasmagoric love story with betrayal and hatred. A woman's ruthless hatred of her husband suddenly starts to surface in the programs of the TV channel she has co-founded with her husband.
The Joke · 1990The Joke
★ 5.81990
MovieComedy
Made in the tragic comedy genre, this film is about the dysfunctional Soviet management system in Azerbaijan SSR at the end of 1980s and about the decadence and corruption of the Soviet bureaucracy.
Baku, I Love You · 2015Baku, I Love You
★ 9.02015
MovieDramaRomance
The film anthology includes 10 short films: "Asia", "Meeting", "Artist", "Yard", "Bahram Gur", "Lottery Ticket", "Caspian Atlantis", "About love", "Aysel" and "Coincidence". Each screenplay in the project reflects different moments in the life of Baku. Short films bring to life relationships between people, their love and longing, happy and sad moments. The main hero uniting these people, relations and different moments of life is the city of Baku.




















