Azerbaijani translator Charkaz Qurbanov, identified in the list of interviewees at the end of the film, "Alias Kurban Said" as "Cherkes Burbanly" identifies himself (as transcribed and transliterated in the English subtitles) as "Cherkes Qurbanov has argued, in a discussion shown in the film "Alias Kurban Said", that "Kurban Said is the literary pseudonym of Mohammed Essad Bey. Statistics have shown, and so has my research, that the novels written by Essad Bey and Kurban Said are in exactly the same style. There is no difference. In Essad Bey's work you see Azerbeidshan Azerbaijan underneath." Another participant, identified in the list of interviewees at the end of the film "Alias Kurban Said" as "Zeydulla Achaev." It may be that this person is the man more commonly known as Zeydulla Ağayevdən, who has translated "Ali and Nino" into Azeri. The discussion said "The text is German, but it is an Azerbeidshan Azerbaijani type of German. Essad Bey's German is what a real German would never use. The sentence structure shows that he is not German."