Reopening on Monday after six weeks closed as part of Government COVID mitigation measures, D’Amato Records is celebrating not only having reopened its doors, but also welcoming a true celebrity in the form of Roland Joffé, the director of Academy Award-winning films The Killing Fields and The Mission.

Celebrating Mr Joffe’s visit, the records shop, which claims to be the world’s oldest, took to Facebook to say “today was a great day. Not only because we reopened and many clients turned up, but we had the great pleasure to be visited by Mr Roland Joffé". 

Mr Joffé was especially prolific as a director in the 1980s and 90s, when, through his aforementioned films The Mission and The Killing fields and others, he was nominated for several awards as a director, with the movies themselves winning in a number of categories.

More recently, he worked on “Blood on the Crown”, also known as “Just Noise” as executive producer. The movie, which chronicles the events of “Sette Giugno” in 1919, was filmed in Valletta.