Rustam Mammad Ibrahim oglu Ibragimbekov (Azerbaijani: Rüstəm İbrahimbəyov; Russian: Рустам Ибрагимбеков; born 5 February 1939) is a Soviet, Azerbaijani screenwriter, dramatist and producer, well known beyond his home Azerbaijan and the former Soviet Union. He is the chair of the Cinematographers' Union of Azerbaijan and director of the Ibrus Theatre.

Rustam Ibrahimbeyov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR. His father was a professor of art history who hailed from Shamakhi. Ibrahimbeyov is the younger brother of Magsud Ibrahimbeyov, an Azerbaijani writer and politician. Rustam Ibrahimbeyov graduated from Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute, then studied script writing and film directing at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. His writing credits include more than 40 film and television scripts, numerous plays and pieces of prose, and nearly all of his scripts were eventually made into full feature or TV films. Since the 1970s, he has collaborated with Nikita Mikhalkov. Urga, Territory of Love, directed by Mikhalkov and released in North America as Close to Eden, won the Golden Lion Award in the Venice Film Festival, as well as the Felix Award in Berlin as Best European Film. Close to Eden was nominated for American Film Academy Award (Oscar) in 1995 as Best Foreign Language Film. Burnt by the Sun (directed by Nikita Mikhalkov) received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1994 and Grand Prize of the Jury at 47th Cannes International Film Festival.

Ibrahimbeyov is a well-known writer. Several collected works were published in Russia, Azerbaijan and abroad. He also wrote over ten theatre plays that were staged in numerous theatres. Rustam Ibrahimbeyov is also credited with several full feature films which he directed. In 2001, Ibrahimbeyov founded Ibrus, a cultural centre in Baku functioning as a theatre where plays are acted in both Azeri and Russian. Ibragimbekov is currently the Chairman of the Confederation of Filmmakers' Unions (CFU), which represents filmmakers from all of the former Soviet republics, Secretary of the Russian Filmmakers' Union, and member of European Film Academy and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He splits his time between Baku, Moscow, and Los Angeles.

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В 1963 году окончил Азербайджанский институт нефти и химии, а затем продолжил учебу в аспирантуре Института кибернетики Академии наук СССР в Москве. В 1967 году окончил Высшие сценарные курсы, в 1974 году - Высшие режиссерские курсы во ВГИКе. В кино с 1970 года. Заслуженный деятель искусств Азербайджанской ССР (1976). Заслуженный деятель искусств РФ (1995). Известность пришла к Рустаму Ибрагимбекову после того, как он в соавторстве с Валентином Ежовым написал сценарий к фильму «Белое солнце пустыни». По заведенному у советских космонавтов ритуалу просмотр этого фильма непосредственно перед запуском являлся важным условием для того, чтобы полет прошел успешно. Практически все его литературные произведения были экранизированы. Его пьесы поставлены более чем в 100 театрах разных стран мира. Пьесы - «Женщина за закрытой дверью», «Похороны в Калифорнии», «Дом на песке», «Похожий на льва» - с большим успехом шли в Праге, Берлине, Софии, Будапеште, Нью-Йорке («Circle Repertory Theatre», 1987), Баку и Москве. Являлся председателем Конфедерации Союзов кинематографистов стран СНГ и Балтии, секретарём Союза кинематографистов Российской Федерации, председателем Еврейского кинофестиваля в Москве, председателем Союза кинематографистов Азербайджана, членом Европейской киноакадемии «Феликс» и Американской академии киноискусства.