Классическим воплощением джинна стал британский фильм «Багдадский вор (1940) г. Джинн выступает в нём как исполинское существо человеческого облика, подчиняющееся воле мальчика, вызвавшего его из бутылки. The genie is a spirit in Arabic mythology. In the pre-Islamic era, the Jinn were worshiped by the Arabs as gods. According to the creed of Islam, the jinn were created from pure smokeless flame, they are not perceived by any of the five basic human senses, they live in parallel with people. Ginnies are very popular fairy-tale in world cinema, appear in films and cartoons of various countries.

Often depicted as magical creatures enclosed in a lamp or bottle. The classic of the genie was the British film “The Baghdad Thief (1940), where Jinn appears as a gigantic human being, subject to the will of a boy, calling him out of the bottle. .