The Cloth Peddler (1917)

Original title

Arşın Mal Alan

Directed by

Boris Svetlov

Genre

silent film, musical film

Country

Russian Empire, Azerbaijan

Runtime

7h

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A cloth peddler in Baku goes about his trade. The film adapts a popular operetta, mixing comedic situations with musical numbers.

lightheartedcomicmusicalnostalgicmelodicbrisksentimental

What happens

The Cloth Peddler (Azerbaijani: Arşın Mal Alan) was a full-length Russian comedy-drama film and Azerbaijani silent film made in the capital city Baku in pre-Soviet Union 1917, based on the operetta by the Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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