Century of Light
At the beginning of the 19th century, the Russian emperor Alexander I signed an order to relocate 700 Swabian families to Transcaucasia. In 1819, the Germans who came from the Kingdom of Württemberg…
Century of Light
At the beginning of the 19th century, the Russian emperor Alexander I signed an order to relocate 700 Swabian families to Transcaucasia. In 1819, the Germans who came from the Kingdom of Württemberg - the current state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany - founded the first colony in the west of Azerbaijan, near Ganja - the village of Helenendorf (now the city of Goygol). Thus, Azerbaijan has become the second homeland of the Germans who settled here. A few generations passed and those Germans mixed with the local population. In 1941, by order of Stalin, German families living in Goygol were forcibly moved to Central Asia. According to the task, it was necessary to deport the German population from Azerbaijan within 48 hours. The place of exile was mainly the waterless, snake-biting steppes of Kazakhstan. The tragedy that happened to one of these families during the exile and the revenge for that event many years later are the main themes of the film.
Century of Light
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At the beginning of the 19th century, the Russian emperor Alexander I signed an order to relocate 700 Swabian families to Transcaucasia. In 1819, the Germans who came from the Kingdom of Württemberg - the current state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany - founded the first colony in the west of Azerbaijan, near Ganja - the village of Helenendorf (now the city of Goygol). Thus, Azerbaijan has become the second homeland of the Germans who settled here.
A few generations passed and those Germans mixed with the local population. In 1941, by order of Stalin, German families living in Goygol were forcibly moved to Central Asia. According to the task, it was necessary to deport the German population from Azerbaijan within 48 hours.
The place of exile was mainly the waterless, snake-biting steppes of Kazakhstan. The tragedy that happened to one of these families during the exile and the revenge for that event many years later are the main themes of the film..