London:The Azerbaijani feature film ‘Arshin Mal Alan’ (‘The Cloth Peddler’), based on the operetta by the esteemed Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyli, was recently screened at the Royal Society of Arts in London.
According to Azerbaijan State News Agency, political analyst and journalist Neil Watson provided insights into the film’s history, plot, and its importance in Azerbaijani cinema. He highlighted that the 1945 film, directed by Rza Tahmasib, is an adaptation of Hajibeyli’s 1913 operetta.
The audience was treated to a restored and colorized version of the film, which had been prepared in 2013 with the support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation.