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"BAKU, JANUARY 1990: AN ORDINARY GENOCIDE" NEARING COMPETITION
Aysor
Dec 24 2009
Armenia
"Working days to shoot 'Baku, January 1990: an Ordinary Genocide'
are nearing a completion," told Aysor's correspondent a screen writer
and a creative team's member, Marina Grigorian.
The film "Baku, January 1990: an Ordinary Genocide' is dedicated
to mass killings of the Armenian population of Baku, capital of
Azerbaijan, where terrible massacres happened leaving more than three
hundred civilian Armenians killed and hundreds of others injured by
crowds of pogrom-makers.
The film is composed of memories, testimonies by the refugees, and
documentary episodes that were unknown till ourdays, as well as of
the foreign expert reports, media publications, and international
documents.
"The film's goal is to give to the world the truth about the ethnic
massacres against Armenian population in Baku of 1990. This is very
important both in sense of historical reality and the true, as nearly
20 years after all these happened in Azerbaijan, their officials
try to hide facts giving a false color to those happenings," said
Marina Grigorian.
The film dedicated to the memory of those hundreds killed people,
and dozens of hundreds of those homeless people who had to leave Baku.
According to the film makers, the movie will be presented in
mid-January 2010 timing it to the 20th anniversary of those terrible
massacres. First, it will be screened in Armenian, and later, its
English and Russian versions will become available on DVD and on
Internet download.
Aysor
Dec 24 2009
Armenia
"Working days to shoot 'Baku, January 1990: an Ordinary Genocide'
are nearing a completion," told Aysor's correspondent a screen writer
and a creative team's member, Marina Grigorian.
The film "Baku, January 1990: an Ordinary Genocide' is dedicated
to mass killings of the Armenian population of Baku, capital of
Azerbaijan, where terrible massacres happened leaving more than three
hundred civilian Armenians killed and hundreds of others injured by
crowds of pogrom-makers.
The film is composed of memories, testimonies by the refugees, and
documentary episodes that were unknown till ourdays, as well as of
the foreign expert reports, media publications, and international
documents.
"The film's goal is to give to the world the truth about the ethnic
massacres against Armenian population in Baku of 1990. This is very
important both in sense of historical reality and the true, as nearly
20 years after all these happened in Azerbaijan, their officials
try to hide facts giving a false color to those happenings," said
Marina Grigorian.
The film dedicated to the memory of those hundreds killed people,
and dozens of hundreds of those homeless people who had to leave Baku.
According to the film makers, the movie will be presented in
mid-January 2010 timing it to the 20th anniversary of those terrible
massacres. First, it will be screened in Armenian, and later, its
English and Russian versions will become available on DVD and on
Internet download.