Mikhail Melkumov
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Based on the events that took place in Odessa in 1910, when, on the instructions of the Foreign Bureau of the RSDLP, a prominent Bolshevik underground worker arrived in the city under the guise of a French timber merchant, who was to organize the delivery of illegal literature to Russia through the Odessa port. The task can be completed. In Odessa, a variety show theater was created, which, having gained fame, toured Russia and received "theater props" from France...
Dangerous Tour

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Furqat

The Cheka officers are conducting an operation to return the gold that the Basmachi plan to exchange for weapons.
Distant Close Years

The task of the Chekists fighting the Turkestan counter-revolutionary gang is to eliminate the conspiracy of the TMO (Turkestan Military Organization), uniting former tsarist officers, Basmachi and British interventionists. The chekist Rasul Khusanbekov, disguised as the millionaire Kurbasov, who hates the Soviet government, gains the confidence of General Krasovsky and enlists in his detachment...
Password "Hotel Regina"

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Storm over Asia

At the center of the action is Kamil Yuldashev, commander of the ChK battalion to combat banditry. He appears before the viewer with a noose around his neck. Even before the revolution, the tribunal of the tsarist Turkestan division sentenced him to death for participating in the rebellion.
Riders of the Revolution

The story takes place in Turkestan in the year 1920. Along the narrow and deserted streets of nighttime Bukhara echoes the voice of a watchman: “All is calm in sacred Bukhara!” But how deceptive this calm is! Bukhara is gripped by intense struggle. The last Emir of Bukhara, nicknamed “the Black Consul” for the executions and the blood spilled at his command, is desperately trying to hold on to power.
Death of the Black Consul

A biopic of Nadira, outstanding Uzbek poetess and public leader of XIX century, mother of Kokand ruler.
Alone Among People

One snowy winter day, townspeople were riding a tram. Suddenly, a boy entered the carriage carrying a basket of flowers from the Pioneer greenhouse. He was bringing them as a gift to his grandmother for her 90th birthday. The presence of the flowers made everyone feel warmer— even a brazen drunk put out his cigarette. But then a rude, loud woman got on the tram…
A Winter's Tale

The comedy is based on the ancient legend of Tahir and Zuhr. The action has been transferred to our time. Various obstacles stand in the way of lovers, but in the end, despite all the machinations of others, Tahir and Zuhra find their happiness.
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Based on the fairy tale "Hot Stone" by Arkady Gaidar.
Song of the Magic Stone

Follows the life of Yuldash Akhunbabayev, one of the first leaders of Uzbekistan. The painting covers the period from the late 1930s to the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.