Your trusted source

Azerbaijani media are sounding an alarm: in movie theaters Baku broadcasts the trailer of the movie "The Cut" by Fatih Akin, German director of Turkish origin, according to the contract of the distributor with the Universal Pictures Company, where can be found a universal point of demonstrating an advertising campaign and trailers before the film would start.

Yusif Sheikhov, the head of the department of the Film Propaganda Department and Film Regestration at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan in an interview with the site "1news.az" stated that the demonstration of the trailer of the film "The Cut" in Azerbaijan is unacceptable. "Yes, the display of advertisements before the demonstration of the film is a common practice for our cinemas, in most cases this is done on the basis of the contract signed between the distributor and the cinemas. But in these contracts the peculiarities of the partners and the specific situations cannot be ignored. The situation that occurred in cinemas is simply outrageous," assured Yusif Sheyhov.

The site called those cinemas that, in accordance with commitments towards Universal Pictures, continue demonstration of the trailer of the film about the Armenian Genocide "unscrupulous".

The film "The Cut" tells about Nazareth Manukyan, an Armenian who escapes during the Armenian Genocide. Years later, he accidentally discovers that his twin daughters might be saved too, and begins looking for them and comes to North Dakota. The film that lasts 138 minutes is in English, the writer and director of the film is Martik Martin. At 71 Venice Film Festival it was presented also with a German dubbing. Arsine Khanjian, Simon Abgaryan, Akin Gazin and others are staring in the film.