Overview
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.
Cast
- Vasili Yaroslavtsev as Bulat-Batyr
- Ada Vojtsik as Asma
- Ivan Klyukvin as Asfan
- Nikolai Vitovtov as Derzhavin
- Eduard Kulganek as General Potyomkin
- Galina Kravchenko as Elena von Brandt
- Sergey Borisov as Pugachyov
- Naum Rogozhin as Von Kanitz
- Ivan Arkanov as Suleyman Murza
- Aleksandr Zhukov as Timur