Documentary Repression Of The Word Presented To Audience
Date
7/19/2024 10:10:37 AM
(MENAFN- AzerNews)
A documentary film "Repression of the Word" (2022) has been
screened at Shusha Hotel-Congress Center as part of the Vagif
Poetry Days, Azernews reports.
The documentary was shot with the support of the Culture
Ministry. The director of the film produced by Bulatfilm Production
Company is Rafig Hashimov, screenwriter-Selim Babullaoglu,
cameraman-Rufat Suleymanov.
In the film, 31 writers, poets and other intellectuals who were
victims of repression are remembered, and the tragic life history
of some of them is told. At the same time, the screen work examines
the tragic and historical philosophy of Stalin's repressions
retrospectively.
People's Writer Anar Rzayev, scholar Hamid Jafarov, academician
Rafael Huseynov, head of the Museum of Victims of Political
Repression Mirabbas Mammadov, Doctor of Philological Sciences,
Professor Badirkhan Ahmadov and Doctor of Philosophy in Philology,
Associate Professor Firudin Gurbansoyun shared their views on the
wave of repression of the 1930s and the reactionary nature of
communism.
The Vagif Poetry Days is co-organized by Heydar Aliyev
Foundation and the Culture Ministry.
On January 14, 1982, the mausoleum of the great poet and
statesman Molla Panah Vagif (1717-1797) and the House of Poetry
were inaugurated in Shusha with the participation of National
Leader Heydar Aliyev.
It was at that event that National Leader Heydar Aliyev
supported the initiative of the Azerbaijani literary figures in
this direction and gave an instruction to hold the Vagif Poetry
Days.
The festival of speech and art was organized for the first time
in July 1982.
The Vagif Poetry Days, which have a forty-two-year history, are
being organized for the fourth time in Shusha city, which was freed
from occupation.
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Laman Ismayilova is AzerNews' staff journalist, follow her on
Twitter: @lmntypewriterrr
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