Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

"— How? Again ‘Ali Baba’?.. Yes. Can you imagine, again. It seemed how many incarnations of ‘Ali Baba’ there have already been… on stage, both “human” and puppet, in cinema, both “live” and animated, on the variety stage and in the circus… And not only here—around the world! How many versions have there been? One hundred? A thousand? If there were one hundred, now there will be one hundred and one; if there were a thousand, then it will be a thousand and one.