Baku gets to absurdity: a positive film about Armenians banned in AzerbaijanMarch 7, 2011 - 20:37 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Following the film ‘In one southern city’, another film by people’s artist of Azerbaijan, filmmaker Eldar Guliyev – ‘Hostage’ - has been banned in this country. Reportedly, the film screening has been banned by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan. According to another version, the leadership has not liked the film plot – presenting Armenians from a positive side in the film couldn’t be assessed unequivocally, AZE.az reported with reference to ANS TV. One can say that the official propaganda has achieved its goal in Azerbaijan: Armenians are considered in this country to be enemies, who cannot have positive features. Neither the Azerbaijani Ministry of Culture, nor the country’s leadership has achieved something new with this ban; they have just proved once again that Baku understands only the language of force, while civilized methods are not for it. It is noteworthy that the filmmaker stated that he has suspended the film screening himself, explaining it by lack of cinemas in the country. The film is dedicated to the Karabakh war. In it, Azerbaijani Kerim becomes a hostage of Armenians. To implement a swap, an Armenian hostage is given to Kerim’s wife. With the lapse of time, she sees that the Armenian also has human features and is in a similar situation. And Baku cannot forgive the filmmaker this very fact: he featured the Armenian as a human being instead of presenting the image that has been imposed on mass consciousness for 20 years. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Scholz hopes Armenia-Azerbaijan peace treaty will be signed this year German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hopes that a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan will be signed this year. Ucom equips four bus stops in Ijevan with free Wi-Fi Ucom now provides free Wi-Fi coverage in smart bus stops in four communities of Ijevan. Armenia, Russia discuss life extension of Metsamor nuclear plant Issues regarding the extension of life of the 2nd power unit of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant were discussed in Yerevan. Armenians stage more campaigns against territorial concessions to Azerbaijan Protesters blocked more roads across Armenia on Friday, April 26 in continuing attempts to scuttle territorial concessions to Azerbaijan. |