When Emirs Die
Film
When Emirs Die
SU- Director
- Lydia Pechorina
- Year
- 1932
It depicts the establishment of kolkhoz (collective farming) in Bukhara. Poor dehkans are oppressed by bays and emir. One of them, unable to bear the slave labor, flees from his native land. A few years later, the fugitive returns and becomes an activist of the collective farm movement. Kulaks kill him and try to flood the collective farm fields with water. However, collective farmers stop the sabotage and reveal the secret of the murdered activist. The perpetrators are justifiably punished.
Top cast
Directed by
Lydia Pechorina
Written by
Gabriel Ureklyan
