Alim (1926)

Plot Summary

Crimea. The middle of the 19th century. A proud and brave jigit Alim Aidamak who cannot put up with the workers’ abuse, works at the leather factory of the greedy Ali-bay. One day he responds in kind. He is fired, but he takes the memories of the beautiful daughter of his ex-master, Sara, with him. Young people went their separate ways. Alim takes the revolutionary path; he and his friends go to the mountains and start an underground struggle. Only his name is enough to terrify landlords, Mirzas and civil servants. Authorities send a Cossack detachment to catch the Crimean Tatar Robin Hood. The adventure film, which reminds an American western, was filmed based on a Crimean Tatar legend, which in 1925 was turned into a play by the repressed Crimean Tatar writer Ipchi Ümer. The shooting of the film under the script of the Ukrainian avant-garde poet Mykola Bazhan began in the autumn of 1925, when the indigenisation policy in the national republics caused demand on the national plots.

Full Cast & Characters

Heiri Emirzade

Alim

Assie Emir-zade

Sara

Oleksandr Arbo

Police chief

Mikhail Arbenin

Ibrahim Mirza, a rich man

V. Kolpashnikov

Ali-bay, Alim’s master

H. Marynchak

Rodzhen / Redzhen

B. Goncharov

Murza Bat

A. Narovskiy

Petrenko

Director & Crew

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