Overview
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.
Cast
- Pyotr Podvalniy as Frunze
- Aleksey Alekseyev as Dmitriy Furmanov
- Tatyana Guretskaya as Naya Furmanova
- Ivan Razveyev as Burov, division commander
- Valeri Solovtsov as Vinchetskiy
- Boris Babochkin as Karavaev
- Pyotr Kirillov as Yeryskin, partisan
- Nikolay Zimenko as Shegabutdinov, district military commissar
- Petr Kuznetsov as Semenchuk
- Nikolay Sharap as Petrov, rebel