Mutiny (1928 Film)
Mutiny (russian: Мятеж, Myatezh) is a 1928 Soviet war drama film directed by Semyon Tymoshenko based on the novel of the same name by Dmitry Furmanov. Plot 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. Cast * Pyotr Podvalny as Mikhail Frunze * Aleksey Alekseev as Dmitry Furmanov * Tatyana Guretskaya as Naya Furmanova * Boris Babochkin as Karavaev * Pyotr Kirillov as partisan Eryskin * Valery Solovtsov as Vinchetsky * Nikolay Zimenko as Shegabutdinov Critical response Film critic Mikhail Bleiman observed: Working with a benevolent viewer in mind ...
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