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Musaoglu, Elchin
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Date of birth
11 July 1966, Baku, Azerbaijan
Mini biography
Elchin Musaoglu [Guliyev] (July 11, 1966, Baku, Azerbaijan)
Elchin Musaoglu [Guliyev] (born 11 July 1966, in Baku, Azerbaijan) is an Azerbaijani filmmaker best known for his award-winning movie The 40th Door and Oscar contender Nabat.
Musaoglu is a member of the Union of the Azerbaijan Cinematographers and the Union of Turkish Documentary Cinematographers, and a founder of the Society for Support of the Development of Documentary Films and Authorial Programs.
Although Musaoglu's father, Musa Guliyev, was a professor of historical sciences, Musaoglu spent his youth in the villages of Azerbaijan where he made theatrical performances with other youths often accepting fruit in lieu of payment.
In 2004 he established RITM Production Company together with his co-workers. The company produced documentaries, short films and The 40th Door, which was the first full-length feature film in the history of RITM Production Company as well as the film director and script writer Elchin Musaoglu.
Peter Debruge from Variety said: "'The 40th Door' is no Hollywood-style rags-to-riches tale, offering instead a stripped-down neorealist fable in the vein of Vittorio De Sica and the strong Iranian films of a decade ago. There may be something overly familiar about such stories by now, and yet this one feels fresh and free from cliche, a touching portrait with the potential for modest arthouse returns.”
Musaoglu's 2014 film Nabat was Azerbaijan's entry for Academy Awards in 2015.
Filmography (major films) 1990 – Leyla and Majnun (55 minutes 16 mm) 1994 – Killer (65 minutes TV) 1995 – P.S. (70 minutes TV) 1996 – The Third Side of the Record (35 minutes TV) 1997 – A Grain of Sand (49 minutes TV) 1997 – A Diary of a Traveller (37 minutes TV) 1998 – The Azerbaijan Carpet (65 minutes TV) 1999 – Magister Dixet (74 minutes TV) 2000 – Niyazi (60 minutes TV) 2001 – The Sun and the Cloud (28 minutes TV) 2002 – The Light of My Eyes (16 minutes TV) 2003 – Glass Toys (12 minutes TV) 2007 – German-Azerbaijan Friendship Relations (45 minutes TV) 2008 – The 40th Door (Feature film, 82 minutes 35mm) 2014 – Nabat (Feature film, 105 min HD)
Director - Selected filmography
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Nabat (2014)
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