In the Caucasus, among the picturesque mountains there is a guerrilla war between the Whites from Bicherakhov’s division and the Red Army soldiers. The Chechen girl Dzhalma finds an injured Ukrainian guy Mykola in a valley. She saves his life and helps him to recover. Young people fall in love with each other, and after the Bolshevik’s victory both of them travel to Ukraine. Dzhalma ends up in a traditional Ukrainian village.
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Lidiya Ostrovskaya-Kurdyum
Dzhalma
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Ivan Kononenko-Kozelskyi
Nikolay Barabash, Dzhalma's husband
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V. Kritskiy
Ivan Tsvirkun, church warden
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D. Lyubchenko
Gnat Barabash, Nikolay's father
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Tamara Gorban
Varvara, Tsvirkun's daughter
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Olga Kizimovskaya
Varvara's sister
Mykola Braterskyi
Petro Kozolup
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Nataliya Gebdovskaya
Daughter
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P. Kostenko
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Arnold Kordium Director · Vadym Ohrymenko Writer Viktor Biyazi Writer
First release February 26, 1929 · Produced in Russia · Original title Джальма
Production
VUFKU
Production
Russia
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Original title
Джальма
Original language
Ukrainian
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
Russia · February 26, 1929
Theatrical · Kiev
No release date listed for United States.
Russia
July 2, 1929 · Theatrical · Moscow
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