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.
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Cast
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Vasili Yaroslavtsev
Bulat-Batyr
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Ada Vojtsik
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Yuri Tarich
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Ivan Pyryev
Ivan Klyukvin
Asfan
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Strike
Ada Voytsik
Asma
Aleksei Utkin
Nikolai Vitovtov
Derzhavin
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Yuri Tarich Director · Natan Zarkhi Writer Grigory Giber Cinematographer
First release January 1, 1928 · Produced in Russia · Languages No dialogue, Russian, Tatar
Production
Sovkino
Production
Russia
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Original title
Булат-Батыр
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
No dialogue · Russian · Tatar
Release dates
Germany · January 1, 1928
Russia · April 10, 1928
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Denmark
November 12, 1928
Portugal
May 5, 1930
Russia
April 10, 1928
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