Samad Mardanov

Director Music organizer

Birth date:

22 September 1909

Death date:

06 August 1939


Samad Mardanov (Samad Mardani) was born in Tbilisi.

He was the first Azerbaijani film director to graduate from the Directing Department of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (1935). He was a student of Sergei Eisenstein.

For a while he taught at the Cinema Department of the Baku Theater Technical School (1937-1938).

Samad Mardanov died in 1939.

Director Samad Mardanov is the brother of actor Mustafa Mardanov.