Haji Agha, the Cinema Actor (in Persian: حاجی آقا آکتور سینما; transliterated as Haji Agha Aktor-e Cinema) is a 1933[2] Iranian comedy[3] film directed by Iranian-Armenian director, Ovannes Oganian and one of a few remaining Iranian silent films.
The film reflects the clash between tradition and modernity in Iranian society in the early 1930s.
[5] While Abi and Rabi (1930) did well commercially, Haji Agha Aktor-e Cinema did not succeed at the box office due to its technical shortcomings and the fact that its release coincided with the first Persian talkie, Dokhtar-e Lor.
When the film is finished and Haji views it, he sees his own image on the screen and, enthralled by it, begins to appreciate the merits of cinema.
At first, they tail him to the dentist's, and then they meet a fakir who claims he can find the lost watch.