POLITICS
HONORED WORKER OF ARTS, FILM DIRECTOR VAGIF MUSTAFAYEV
I cordially congratulate you, the well-known representative of Azerbaijani cinematography, on your 50th birthday.
Your creative work constitutes one of the unforgettable pages of the history of Azerbaijani Cinema. Due to your innate talent and mastery, through your movies you have made a great contribution to the art of reflection of important problems of today’s life of Azerbaijan people by artistic tools.
The images created by you with use of wide potentialities of cinema are notable for their realisticness. Your hand of a skilled film maker and screen writer as if embodies your own personality for those watching your works. The courageous ideas of your films made in 80s rank you amongst masters, who created brilliant samples of the Soviet cinema.
The films you have made in such original genre as feature-documentary hold special place in Azerbaijani cinematography, they allow film-goers to see in creative work a valuable source of our political history.
The successes you have achieved at various film festivals and forums, your awards express high assessment of your labor.
I believe you will further be doing your best for development and flourishing of Azerbaijani cinema, and pleasing cinema-lovers with new works.
I wish you good health, happiness and success in creative work.
Heydar Aliyev
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan
August 27, 2003