Kamil Najafzadeh Art director: BORN - 20 December, Year 1929 PEOPLE'S ARTIST, PROFESSOR, TWICE BECAME THE STATE AWARDS LAUREATE, AZERBAIJAN AND CHECHEN-INGUSHETIA REPUBLIC'S MERITED ARTS STATESMAN, MERIT ORDER CAVALIER 1957-The member of the Union of Azerbaijan's Artists 1957-The member of the Union of Azerbaijan's Cinematografs 1964-Chechen-Ingushetia Republic's Merited Arts Statesman 1976-Azerbaijan Republic's Merited Arts Statesman 1980-Azerbaijan Republic's State Awards Laureate 1985-Azerbaijan Republic's State Awards Laureate J987-People's Artist of Azerbaijan 1997-Professor 1999-Meri Order Cavalier After graduating the school named after A. Azimzadeh, Kamil Najafzadeh left for, Moscow to continue his education at the All-Union State Cinematography Institute. Having graduated from the Department of Art of the same institute, he returned to Baku and started his career as a producer at the "Azerbaijanfilm" cinema studio. Kamil Najafzadeh has successively produced such commonly loved masterpieces as "On Far Coasts", "Two Boys From the Same Yard", "The Fellow Wind", "Ulduz", "Birthday", "I Will Dance", "The Day After Tomorrow", "Golden Precipice". Najafzadeh has spent 40 years of his life for the development of Azerbaijani cinema, producing 38 films. With his original productions Najafzadeh showed high talents in painting, graphics and the same in the theatre art. He was an artistic producer of the plays "Knyaz" by a great Azeri dramaturgist H. Javid staged in the Azerbaijan National Theatre and "Farhad and Shirin" by S. Vurgun staged in the Russian Dramatic Theatre, which are considered as the real example oa art to be introduced for young "Knyaz" by a great Azeri dramaturgist H. Javid staged in the Azerbaijan National Theatre and "Farhad and Shirin" by S. Vurgun staged in the Russian Dramatic Theatre, which are considered as the real example art to be introduced for young artiK. Najafzadeh has participated in art exibitions held in Azerbaijan and abroad. He's been awarded many times. Kamil Najaf oglu Najafzadeh is the author of 15 individual exbitions. In the year 1986, he held his individual exbition in the capital of Hanoi, Vietnam and presented his 29 masterpieces to the Vietnamese people. (These pictures are still demonstrated at the centre of the city). The portraits, lyric panoramas, modern-spirited tableaus created by the artist express his love to his Motherland. The emotional tableau "The Cry of Azerbaijan" is considered as the master's own cry. The artist expresses his protests against the occupation of Motherland using his own selection of colous. The portraits of Shah Ismayil Khatai, M. F. Akhundov, S. Vurgun, N. Narimanov, J. Jabbarli, as well as those of renowned figures of the modern culture, art are considered as the artist's most succesful works. In the year 1997 K. Najafzadeh has held his own exbition in Washington (April and May). It was the first ever art exbition of Azeri artist in United States which the artist dedicated to Independent Azerbaijan. This case should be considered as a very important one. A very high level art exbition of K. Najafzadeh was held in London in July, 1999. The London art-lovers met the artists works with a great respect. The exbition was successful. The artist's works are under presevation at the Museums of Great Britain, USA, Japan, France, Iran, Check Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, and other contry's museums, private collections. K.Najafzadeh's works "Labours", "Shahriyar", "Fizuli", "The First Tractor", "The Morning In the Posture", "On the River Bank", "A. H. Zeynalov", "Imran Qasimov", "Mahmud Esembaev", "Hasan Turaboy", "Rasirn Balayev", "Nurush Aliyev", "The Cry of Azerbaijan" "Disabled" etc. Although all these works are different for their style, form, contents, philosophic and psychological meaning, painting teenies, they are united by the artist's love to his Motherland and people.