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
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Heiri Emirzade
Alim
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26 Commissioners
Almas
Assie Emir-zade
Sara
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Oleksandr Arbo
Police chief
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Kira Kiralina
Shelmenko-denschik
Mikhail Arbenin
Ibrahim Mirza, a rich man
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Shadows of Belvedere
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V. Kolpashnikov
Ali-bay, Alim’s master
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Jimmy Higgings
Shadows of Belvedere
H. Marynchak
Rodzhen / Redzhen
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B. Goncharov
Murza Bat
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Jimmy Higgings
Kira Kiralina
A. Narovskiy
Petrenko
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Kira Kiralina
Shadows of Belvedere
Heorhiy Tasin Director · Mykola Bazhan Writer Ipchi Ümer Writer
First release November 30, 1926 · Produced in Russia · Languages Russian, Ukrainian
Production
VUFKU
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Russia
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Original title
Алім
Original language
Ukrainian
Spoken on screen
Russian · Ukrainian
Release dates
Russia · November 30, 1926
Premiere · Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
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