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Alim

Nov 30, 1926 · 1h 1m
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Drama
Western

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Crimea. The middle of the 19th century. A proud and brave jigit Alim Aidamak who cannot put up with the workers’ abuse, works at the leather factory of the greedy Ali-bay. One day he responds in kind. He is fired, but he takes the memories of the beautiful daughter of his ex-master, Sara, with him. Young people went their separate ways. Alim takes the revolutionary path; he and his friends go to the mountains and start an underground struggle. Only his name is enough to terrify landlords, Mirzas and civil servants. Authorities send a Cossack detachment to catch the Crimean Tatar Robin Hood. The adventure film, which reminds an American western, was filmed based on a Crimean Tatar legend, which in 1925 was turned into a play by the repressed Crimean Tatar writer Ipchi Ümer. The shooting of the film under the script of the Ukrainian avant-garde poet Mykola Bazhan began in the autumn of 1925, when the indigenisation policy in the national republics caused demand on the national plots.

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CAST

Heiri Emirzade
Alim
Assie Emir-zade
Sara
Oleksandr Arbo
Police chief
Mikhail Arbenin
Ibrahim Mirza, a rich man
V. Kolpashnikov
Ali-bay, Alim’s master
H. Marynchak
Rodzhen / Redzhen
B. Goncharov
Murza Bat
A. Narovskiy
Petrenko
Directed by Heorhiy Tasin

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Status
Released
Original language
UK
Budget
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Production
VUFKU
Country
SU
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