Synopsis
In a small Tatar village during the traditional holiday of the beginning of plowing, monks appear accompanied by soldiers. Trying to convert the local population to Orthodoxy by force, the monks and soldiers meet a tough rebuff from the locals. The wife of the peasant Bulat dies, and his son Asfan is taken away in an unknown direction.
Ratings
| Source | Rating |
|---|---|
| IMDb | 5.5/10 |
| TMDB | 4.0/104 votes |
Key crew
- Yuri TarichDirector, Writer
- Natan ZarkhiWriter
Cast
- Vasili YaroslavtsevBulat-Batyr
- Ada VojtsikAsma
- Ivan KlyukvinAsfan
- Nikolai VitovtovDerzhavin
- Ernest KulganekGeneral Potyomkin
- Galina KravchenkoElena von Brandt
- Sergey BorisovPugachyov
- Naum RogozhinVon Kanitz
- Ivan ArkanovSuleyman Murza
- Aleksandr ZhukovTimur
- Boris YurtsevMurat
- Mstislav KotelnikovBeloborodov












