Latif Fayziyev
People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR (1979) and Uzbekfilm director, author of The Rich Man and the Hired Hand, The Fall of the Emirate, Legend of Love and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
- Occupation:
- Director, Film director
- Born:
- February 1 1929(65 years old) ♒ — October 21, 1994
- Birthplace:
- Tashkent
Biography
Latif Obidovich Fayziyev was born on 1 February 1929 in Tashkent. In 1941–1945 he was an actor at the Tashkent Theatre of Young Spectators and in 1950 he graduated from the film institute in Moscow.
From 1950 he was a director at the Uzbekfilm studio and made about twenty documentary and chronicle films. His first feature was The Rich Man and the Hired Hand (1953). The Fall of the Emirate is described as the first Uzbek colour film and Natashaxonim as the first Uzbek widescreen colour film. He made several films with Indian colleagues and helped establish the film-ballet genre in Uzbek cinema.
His works include Sacred Blood (1956; director and screenwriter), Ulugh Beg's Star (1965), Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1979; director of the Russian version), Legend of Love (1984) and Shikari (1991). In 1986–1989 he was chief director of the Hamza Theatre.
He was Honored Art Worker of Uzbekistan (1964), People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR (1979), laureate of the Hamza State Prize (1981) and received the Shuhrat medal (1994). He died on 21 October 1994.
Education
- Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK)University · 1950
Career
- Uzbekfilm studioDirector · Tashkent · 1950–…
- Tashkent Theatre of Young Spectators (now the Youth Theatre of Uzbekistan)Actor · Tashkent · 1941–1945
Awards
Medal «Shuhrat» (Glory)1994 · Uzbekistan
People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR1979 · Uzbek SSR- Honoured Art Worker of the Uzbek SSR1964 · Uzbek SSR
Hamza State Prize of the Uzbek SSR1981 · Uzbek SSR
Life path
- 1929Birth
Born in Tashkent.
- 1941Theatre of Young Spectators
Acted at the Tashkent Theatre of Young Spectators until 1945.
- 1950Film institute and Uzbekfilm
Graduated from the film institute in Moscow and began as a director at Uzbekfilm.
- 1953The Rich Man and the Hired Hand
His first feature film.
- 1964Honored Art Worker
Named Honored Art Worker of Uzbekistan.
- 1979People's Artist
Named People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR.
- 1981Hamza State Prize
Became a laureate of the Hamza State Prize.
- 1986Hamza Theatre
Was chief director of the Hamza Theatre until 1989.
- 1994Death
Received the Shuhrat medal; died on 21 October.