Early silent film from Uzbekistan: Adolat lives happily with her mother and father, leading a joyous life alongside her best friend, Qumri, who is later married to Umar. But this happiness comes to an end the day she is given in marriage as a second wife to the wealthy merchant Taki Bai, whose first wife Kadhija is infertile.
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Ra Messerer
Adolat, second wife
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Grigol Chechelashvili
Tajibai
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Mikhail Doronin
Sadygbai
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Nabi Ganiyev
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Shakhida Magzumova
Dancer
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M. Grineva
Khadycha, first wife
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U. Khan-Mirzobaeva
Mother in law
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Z. Yuldashbaeva
Ivan Khudoleyev
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Mikhail Doronin Director · Valentina Sobborey Writer Elena Saifullina Writer
First release April 17, 1927 · Produced in Russia · Original title Вторая жена
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Uzbekfilm
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Russia
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Original title
Вторая жена
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
Russia · April 17, 1927
Premiere · Tashkent
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