Nikolay Sharap

Central Asia during the Civil War. The Jarkent battalion of the Red Army, located in the Verny (now Alma-Ata), receives an order from Frunze to go to the Fergana region to fight the Basmachi. A group of kulaks, with the support of local merchants and beys, incites the unconscious, wavering mass of the Red Army to revolt. The anti-Soviet agitation of counter-revolutionaries, demagogically exploiting the mood of war weariness, provokes an open mutiny in the battalion.

Directed by Pavel Petrov-Bytov.

About the participation of the exiled Russian revolutionary in the struggle of the Sami against the arbitrariness of the tsarist police and predatory merchants. Lost movie.