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Abrek Zaur

192685 minSoviet Union
WesternAdventureDrama

Synopsis

Zaur intervenes when an officer mistreats a fellow villager and becomes an outlaw after the officer's accidental death. Taking refuge in the Caucasian mountains, he joins resistance to imperial authority. Reprisals against the village and a commander's personal vendetta bind the rebellion to his family's fate.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
67:59
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · «Госкино» · Public domain

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Cast

DirectorsBoris Mikhin

Historical context

Boris Mikhin's Soviet adventure casts the outlaw as an opponent of tsarist oppression. Its nineteenth-century Caucasian setting brings the pursuit and revenge patterns of a Western into a different political history.

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