Alim

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

November 30, 1926

Original language

Ukrainian

Spoken languages

Russian, Ukrainian

Countries

Soviet Union

Production

VUFKU

Cast

Mikhail Arbenin,B. Goncharov,V. Kolpashnikov,Khairi Emir-Zade,H. Marynchak,Oleksandr Arbo,Assie Emir-zade,A. Narovskiy

Director

Heorhiy Tasin

Writer

Ipchi Ümer,Mykola Bazhan

Cinematography

Andrey Mains,Mikhail Belsky,Vladimir Lemke

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt8785262