Rasim Balayev

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 FadeThe Stars Don't Fade · 1971
The 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 şəkliCümhuriyyətin 9 şəkli · 2018
Cümhuriyyətin 9 şəkli
2018
MovieHistoryDrama
Dedicated to the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.
The BasementThe Basement · 1990
The 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...
NasimiNasimi · 1974
Nasimi
★ 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 ScoreThe Lonely Businessman's Big Score · 1984
The 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 NightsBlack & White Nights · 2013
Black & 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 JokeThe Joke · 1990
The 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 YouBaku, I Love You · 2015
Baku, 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.

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Sound of the PipeSound of the Pipe · 1975
Sound of the Pipe
★ 5.51975
MovieDramaHistory
The novelette was written by I.Huseynov. In the film, the problem of war is viewed from the perspective of love. Almost all of the men of the village are at the battlefront. The women who stayed in the night and day to support their efforts. Children wake up in the middle of the night, crying for bread. All of the villagers feel anxious for the men to return. Mothers are waiting for their sons; wives, for their husbands and children, for their fathers. When Sayali's husband dies at the front, her husband's friend Jabrayil proposes to her. The people of the village are furious. Jabrayil's brothers leave home, convinced that their family has been disgraced. One brother goesw crazy; the other fall ill and dies. The only person who doesn't blame Jabrayil is the "agsaggal" (the wise old man) of the village - Isfandiyar Kishi. In this film, note single sound of weaponry is heard, not are any battle scenes depicted, yet we still witness the inherent tragedy of war.

Nuru (voice)