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The Bodyguard

The setting is Central Asia during the Russian civil war. In the post-revolutionary twenties, when the power in European Russia was (officially) "fully in the hands of the workers and peasants", but the fight against the Basmachi rebels was in full swing. When a Red Army detachment captures Sultan Mazar, the brains behind the Bazmachi contingent, a decision is made to escort urgently the prisoner to the Bukhara province. The difficult mission is entrusted to a grizzled mountain trapper and conscientious revolutionary called Mirzo. His expertise is essential to traverse the precarious paths and steep mountain ridges along the way, impossible terrain for the inexperienced. A group consisting of Mirzo, his brother Kova, the Sultan, his daughter Zaranghis and slave Saifulla set off on this journey. They are forced to fight on the mountain ridges as well as negotiate the natural dangers and harsh elements.

Top Cast

  • Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy

    Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy

    Mirzo

  • Anatoliy Solonitsyn

    Anatoliy Solonitsyn

    Sultan Nazar

  • Shavkat Abdusalamov

    Shavkat Abdusalamov

    Fottabek

  • Gulcha Tashbayeva

    Gulcha Tashbayeva

    Aibash

  • Mykola Hrynko

    Mykola Hrynko

    Nikolai Grigorievich

  • Anvara Alimova

    Anvara Alimova

  • Radzhab Adashev

    Radzhab Adashev

  • Saidmurad Ziyautdinov

    Saidmurad Ziyautdinov

  • Anvar Kenjaev

    Anvar Kenjaev

Overview

The setting is Central Asia during the Russian civil war. In the post-revolutionary twenties, when the power in European Russia was (officially) "fully in the hands of the workers and peasants", but the fight against the Basmachi rebels was in full swing. When a Red Army detachment captures Sultan Mazar, the brains behind the Bazmachi contingent, a decision is made to escort urgently the prisoner to the Bukhara province. The difficult mission is entrusted to a grizzled mountain trapper and conscientious revolutionary called Mirzo. His expertise is essential to traverse the precarious paths and steep mountain ridges along the way, impossible terrain for the inexperienced. A group consisting of Mirzo, his brother Kova, the Sultan, his daughter Zaranghis and slave Saifulla set off on this journey. They are forced to fight on the mountain ridges as well as negotiate the natural dangers and harsh elements.

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