Lutfali Abdullayev
Lutfali Amir oglu Abdullayev (
Career
Lutfali Abdullayev was born into a merchant family in the city of
Main roles in classic Azerbaijani films (such Vali in Arshin Mal Alan (1945); Balaoglan in the 1956 screen version of Uzeyir Hajibeyov's musical comedy O olmasin, bu olsun ("Not That One, Then This One"); Zulumov in Ahmad haradadir? ("Where is Ahmad?", 1965), etc.) gained Abdullayev great fame. He was reportedly compared to Igor Ilyinsky by Russian critics.[2] He would often receive role offerings from various Russian theatres but chose to turn them down because of his poor command of the Russian language.[2]
Personal life
In 1942, Lutfali Abdullayev met 17-year-old Sevda Pepinova and four years later the two hatched plans to marry. However Pepinova's mother strongly opposed to this marriage due to class differences. Abdullayev was the son of a merchant and had no undergraduate degree, whereas Sevda came from a family of aristocrats whose wealth was largely expropriated as a result of
See also
References
- ^ a b (in Russian) He is Alive... Archived 2007-07-04 at archive.today by I.Qadirova. 26 March 2004
- ^ a b c (in Azerbaijani) Celebrity Series: Remembering Lutfali Abdullayev Archived 2007-10-09 at the Wayback Machine. Iki Sahil.
External links
- Lutfali Abdullayev at IMDb