The Cloth Peddler (1945 film)

Plot

Cast

• Rashid Behbudov,
• Leyla Badirbayli,
• Alakbar Huseynzade
• Munavvar Kalantarli
• Ismayil Afandiyev
• Rahila Mustafayeva
• Lutfali Abdullayev
• Mirzaagha Aliyev

  About movie

• The film has already been shown in 136 countries and translated into 86 languages.
• The film was screened on the basis of Uzeyir Hajibayov's same name operetta.
• Film was re-mastered and colorized in 2013 in Los Angeles at the expense of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation of Azerbaijan.
• The 1945 film was shot in black-and-white in the midst of Soviet engagement in World War II
• The Ministry of Culture and Tourism brought a copy of the film "Arshin Mal Alan" in the Moscow Film Foundation to Baku with the financial support of the International Bank, and organized a re-translation of the film into Azerbaijani language. The film was demonstrated for the first time in the 60th anniversary of it on 16 May 2006.
• The film was screened at the Le Balzac Cinema of France in March 2018 within the framework of the Week of foreign films.

  Colorization

• At the initiative of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, the film was colorized and remastered in Los Angeles in 2012-2013. Its colorized version premiered in Baku, Azerbaijan in December 2013.

  Premiere in Hollywood

• The colorized version of Arshin Mal Alan, was shown on September 19, 2015 in Hollywood, US by the Consulate General of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles