Lifelong Mission documentary to be presented in Baku

/By AzerNews/

By Amina Nazarli

The “Lifelong Mission” documentary and the “Last Refuge in a Foreign Land” photo-book will be presented at Nizami Cinema on January 22.

The project was filmed by the Baku Media Center and supported by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation.

Arzu Aliyeva is the head of the project and the chief producer, whereas Ramiz Abutalibov, a recognized diplomat, is the head consultant.

Lifelong Mission reveals tumultuous story of the Azerbaijani delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in January 1919 led by Alimardan bey Topchubashov, the then Speaker of Parliament of the first Azerbaijan Democratic Republic existed from 1918 to 1920.

It took the creative team a good year and a half of substantial archive research in Baku, Tbilisi, Moscow, St.Petersburg and Paris followed by photo and video shooting and interviews with the experts on the Azerbaijani emigration to France.

Last Refuge in A Foreign Land edition is the first book dedicated to the lives of the members of the Azerbaijani delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, and a number of the fellow countrymen fleeing to France to escape persecution by the Bolshevik (Communist) regime.

Lifelong Mission shot by the Baku Media Center is the second documentary produced by Arzu Aliyeva. Her first work, “Objective Baku. Hitler’s War on Oil” was aired in Azerbaijan in May 2015 and broadcasted by the National Geographic in 26 countries over the world.