Pyhän Kirjan Varjo (2007)

Pyhän Kirjan Varjo plot

In one of the worst dictatorships in the world, Turkmenistan, violation of human rights is the order of the day. What should have become a democracy in 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, grew into a country with a 60 percent unemployment rate and a government with no real opposition. Dictator Saparmurat Niyazov published his Ruhnama or Book of the Soul in 2001, a collection of partly invented myths, rules of conduct and tributes to himself. Immediately after its release, it became mandatory for all citizens. Turkmenistan has a huge stock of gas and oil and is an important transit route for raw materials from Asia to Europe. Companies that translate the Ruhnama into their own language will be given access to the country. An important pivot in this whole is the Turkish businessman Ahmet Chalik, who has slowly but surely worked his way up to the second man in the country. Many western companies proved willing to bow down and join forces with the dictatorship. In this investigative documentary, director Arto Halonen, together with an American journalist friend, unmasks which companies are involved and how they evade their ethical responsibility. At the same time, conversations with exiles provide a humiliating political context.

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