The read
It runs a compact 1h 27m.
Synopsis
Central Asia during the Civil War. The Jarkent battalion of the Red Army, located in the Verny (now Alma-Ata), receives an order from Frunze to go to the Fergana region to fight the Basmachi. A group of kulaks, with the support of local merchants and beys, incites the unconscious, wavering mass of the Red Army to revolt. The anti-Soviet agitation of counter-revolutionaries, demagogically exploiting the mood of war weariness, provokes an open mutiny in the battalion.
Ratings
TMDB10/10
2 audience votes
Key crew
- Mikhail BleimanWriter
- Semyon TimoshenkoDirector
- Semyon TimoshenkoWriter
Cast
- Pyotr PodvalniyFrunze
- Aleksey AlekseyevDmitriy Furmanov
- Tatyana GuretskayaNaya Furmanova
- Ivan RazveyevBurov, division commander
- Valeri SolovtsovVinchetskiy
- Boris BabochkinKaravaev
- Pyotr KirillovYeryskin, partisan
- Nikolay ZimenkoShegabutdinov, district military commissar
- Petr KuznetsovSemenchuk
- Nikolay SharapPetrov, rebel
- Apollon VerinCheusov, rebel leader
- Nikolay PavlovKolyshev, party school director