A new scandal broke out in Azerbaijan, and because of the shooting of a film on the heroics of a Soviet Armenian intelligence officer.

The making of “Land Liz”—a motion picture in memory of a Soviet intelligence officer fighting against German spies in Iran in 1943—is in progress in Baku, and at the order of the Russia-1, the state-owned Russian television channel, reported Haqqin.az news agency of Azerbaijan.   

It had become apparent in the post-Soviet years that Armenian intelligence officer Gevorg Vardanyan, who was working in Iran under the pseudonym Amir, had played the main role in “Tehran 43,” a film that was shot in the Iranian capital city, and which was about the prevention of an attack organized against the leaders of the ex-USSR, US, and Great Britain.

Baku, however, is unable to come to terms with the fact that the movie is dedicated to an Armenian intelligence officer.

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan had announced that it will not give permission for the making of such motion picture in the country.

Haqqin.az contacted the executive producer of this film, Mikhail Shestakov, who noted, however, that they have stayed away from an Armenian theme in the movie, and therefore its main character will be a Soviet intelligence officer by the name of Ivan, who is Russian.