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BAKU CANCELS RUSSIAN FILM SCREENING BECAUSE OF KARABAKH CONFLICT
epress.am
02.17.2012
A group of Facebook activists have asked the Park Cinema in Baku
to cancel its planned Feb. 21 screening of the Russian film August
Eighth - the title referencing the Russo-Georgian war in August 2008,
Regnum reports.
The group calls the screening unacceptable in Azerbaijan, "where
Armenia carried out aggression with Russia's support." Seeing
parallels with Armenia's aggression against Azerbaijan over the
disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, they believe the film justifies
Russian aggression against Georgia (in South Ossetia), and endorses
Russian hegemony in the South Caucasus.
The theatre administration was warned that if the screening proceeded
as planned, the group would conduct a public campaign to boycott
the film.
In response to the "concern of Azerbaijani society", the theatre
cancelled the screening and removed advertisements for the film.
Director Janik Faiziyev co-wrote the film with American screenwriter
Michael A. Lerner. The plot follows a divorced woman from Moscow who
sends her 7-year-old son to Tskhinvali, Georgia, to be with his father,
when the August 2008 war erupts and she must travel to the front lines
to save her son. In between, she battles giant robots and other sci-fi
elements. Shooting took place in Moscow, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia.
epress.am
02.17.2012
A group of Facebook activists have asked the Park Cinema in Baku
to cancel its planned Feb. 21 screening of the Russian film August
Eighth - the title referencing the Russo-Georgian war in August 2008,
Regnum reports.
The group calls the screening unacceptable in Azerbaijan, "where
Armenia carried out aggression with Russia's support." Seeing
parallels with Armenia's aggression against Azerbaijan over the
disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, they believe the film justifies
Russian aggression against Georgia (in South Ossetia), and endorses
Russian hegemony in the South Caucasus.
The theatre administration was warned that if the screening proceeded
as planned, the group would conduct a public campaign to boycott
the film.
In response to the "concern of Azerbaijani society", the theatre
cancelled the screening and removed advertisements for the film.
Director Janik Faiziyev co-wrote the film with American screenwriter
Michael A. Lerner. The plot follows a divorced woman from Moscow who
sends her 7-year-old son to Tskhinvali, Georgia, to be with his father,
when the August 2008 war erupts and she must travel to the front lines
to save her son. In between, she battles giant robots and other sci-fi
elements. Shooting took place in Moscow, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia.