Alisattar Atakishiyev

Alisattar Atakishiyev was born in Baku. He lost his parents at the age of eight, and his four sisters lived under the care of his brother.

He studied at the Moscow Higher Art Technical School, Department of Painting (1927-1931), and at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography, Department of Cinematography (1931-1936).

First, he worked as a production artist-operator at the Mosfilm film studio (1935-1941), and then at the Baku film studio (1941-1945), where he was a production operator for several feature films. In 1945, he returned to Mosfilm and worked there as a cameraman, specializing in color films. In 1953, he was invited to the Tallinnfilm film studio, where he shot Estonia's first color film as a cameraman (1955, "When Evening Falls", directed by Alexander Mandrykin). After returning to the "Azerbaijanfilm" film studio in 1956, he directed films until 1974. He worked as a dubbing director for Indian films for a long time. He is the author of the fairy tales "The Adventures of Ibrahim" and "Bakhtiyar".

Honored Artist (1960) Alisattar Atakishiyev died in a nursing home in Moscow in 1990 and was buried at the Kuntsevo cemetery in Moscow.