Baku: The City of Ali and Nino
A fascinating look at the history of the magnificent city of Baku, Kurban Said's city of 'Ali and Nino'.

Teresa Cherfas (producer/director) specialises in documentaries about Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet history. A fluent Russian-speaker with an MPhil in Russian Studies, she produced Amnesty Media award-winner Babitsky’s War, BAFTA award-winner Beslan, and was producer/director on Discovery Channel’s Last of the Czars, Channel 4’s The Crimean War and co-series producer with George Carey on the BBC’s Russia: a Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby. She produced several films for BBC4’s prestigious documentary slot Storyville, including Knocking on Heaven’s Door and Hitler, Stalin and Mr. Jones.
George Carey (writer/narrator) is a former BBC journalist and prize-winning independent producer who now spends most of his time making his own films. Together with Teresa Cherfas as producer, he has developed a distinctive style of documentary, with strong personal narratives, shooting his own stories in remote parts of Russia and the former Soviet Union. His latest film Masterspy of Moscow: George Blake was nominated for a Grierson award.
Stefan Ronwicz (editor) edited the early documentary films of fellow-Pole and Oscar award winning director Pawel Pawlikowksi. He edited George Carey’s previous four personal documentaries, and the team have come together again on Baku: The City of Ali & Nino.