Murtuza Muxtarov
A feature-documentary film “Heritage” dedicated to the activity of Nobel brothers in oil industry Azerbaijan has prepared by Baku Media Center. The aim of the film is to describe the role and significance of Nobel Brothers’ activity in the region and in the development of world oil production, as well as to contribute to highlighting and propaganda of the history of oil production in Azerbaijan. The screenplay features Nobel’s major accomplishments including the creation of the world’s first petrol tanker and storage tanks for storage of oil products, the launch of the first European oil pipeline in Baku, and other similar novelties in the company’s oil industry. At the same time, the film speaks about the growing importance of ‘black gold’ as a geostrategic raw material with the development of oil industry, as well as the geopolitical importance of Azerbaijan in the region and the struggle of giant companies from several continents for Baku oil.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s the Armenian minority in Nagorono-Karabakh attempted to break away from Azerbaijan, one of the former Soviet republics. Overnight these former neighbors became enemies, and simple village folk were suddenly made hostages in a complex power game. One of the Azerbaijani villages right on the border is home to the family of the peasant farmer Kerim, who has just been captured by the Armenians. The village council decides to take an Armenian in order to arrange a hostage exchange. They imprison the wounded man in the barn next to Kerim's house, where his wife and three children desperately await the husband's return. The captive from the other side of the border finds himself in exactly the same situation - he, too, has three children, he finds it hard to scrape a living together, he has never done anything to harm anyone and, like Kerim, he just wants to go back home. But life in Karabakh is far more complex now. Blood calls for blood.
