Rustam Ibragimbekov, author of Oscar-winning ‘Burnt By The Sun’ passes away

By ANI

WASHINGTON: The famend author Rustam Ibragimbekov who had penned the scripts for among the iconic movies together with 1994 Oscar winner ‘Burnt by the Sun’ has died.

According to Deadline, Rustam died in Moscow on Friday.

Born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR on February 5, 1939, Rustam Ibragimbekov had penned greater than 50 movies all through his profession, together with ‘Guard Me’, ‘My Talisman’, ‘Close to Eden’, ‘The Barber of Siberia’, ‘East/West’, ‘Broken Bridges’ and ‘Nomad: The Warrior’, and in addition the cult traditional action-comedy ‘White Sun of the Desert’, which he and Valentin Ezhov wrote for director Vladimir Motyl.

He co-wrote the historic drama ‘Burnt by the Sun’ with director Nikita Mikhalkov that claimed the Cannes Film Festival’s Grand Prix on its path to the Oscars.

Rustom was additionally a director, producer, and playwright who helmed the movies ‘Aila’, ‘Telefon doveriya’ and ‘A Trap for the Ghost’ amongst a number of others.