Hollywood movie about Georgia-Russia war has a gross mistake on Azerbaijan - PHOTOS

Some time ago, a movie directed by Renny Harlin (yes the same Renny Harlin, who brought us such fantastic action movies as Die Hard with Bruce Willis), about the Georgia-Russia 2008 war.

The movie starred some very well known faces, such as Val Kilmer (portraying a war journalist) and Andy Garcia (playing Mikhail Saakashvili). The movie was great, good action scenes, however there was one mistake, that shouldnt be forgotten for sure. Take a look at the picture below:



Yes, that's a screencap from the movie. The film frequently shows CNN live broadcasts from the warzone, and they have these backgrounds of South Caucasus Map...and guess what... Azerbaijan on this very map is shown without Nakhchivan, which is shown...as part of Armenia. Since this does not have any connections with Azerbaijan or Armenia, its strange to see this kind of "mistake", and what's worse - is that you cannot just "delete" this from the movie.  However, we urge everyone who cares, write a message to CNN, and express your opinion on this. We feel this is important, and we should let them know what we think. Below is a formal text letter that you can use.


"Hello,

I would like to point out a mistake that CNN made, in connection with Azerbaijan. Recently a movie about Georgian-Russian war of 2008 has been released (5 Days of August, directed by Renny Harlin), and the film features some short scenes, where the live CNN reports are being featured, and the map of South Caucasus region is displayed in the background. On that map the territory of Azerbaijan is shown without the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (which is of course a part of Azerbaijan), and instead, according to the map, it belongs to Armenia.

This mistake is gross, as this is being shown worldwide in a movie that has nothing to do with Azerbaijan or Armenia, and I am very sorry that CNN allowed such thing to happen. I urge you to be more careful in the future when using maps of the S. Caucasus region, as some of them (as the one demonstrated in the movie) can be absolutely false. Sadly, these facts spread wrong information about Azerbaijan around the world.

I sincerely hope that such mistakes will be avoided in the future.

Thank you.

NAME SURNAME"



You can use THIS FORM to compile your letter.


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