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 Dmitriy Andreyevich Furmanov (russian: Дми́трий Андре́евич Фу́рманов; 7 November 1891, Sereda – 15 March 1926, Moscow) was a Russian writer, revolutionary and military officer. Biography He was born to a peasant fa ...

Plot

Central Asia during the

Civil War A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country). The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...

. The Jarkent battalion of the Red Army, located in the Verny (now

Alma-Ata Almaty (; kk, Алматы; ), formerly known as Alma-Ata ( kk, Алма-Ата), is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of about 2 million. It was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to 1936 as an autonomous republic as part of t ...

), receives an order from Frunze to go to the Fergana region to fight the Basmachi. A group of

kulak Kulak (; russian: кула́к, r=kulák, p=kʊˈlak, a=Ru-кулак.ogg; plural: кулаки́, ''kulakí'', 'fist' or 'tight-fisted'), also kurkul () or golchomag (, plural: ), was the term which was used to describe peasants who owned ove ...

s, with the support of local merchants and beys, incites the unconscious, wavering mass of the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

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 Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze (russian: Михаил Васильевич Фрунзе; ro, Mihail Frunză; 2 February 1885 – 31 October 1925) was a Bolshevik leader during and just prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Born in the modern-day ...

* Aleksey Alekseev as

Tatyana Guretskaya Tatiana (or Tatianna, also romanized as Tatyana, Tatjana, Tatijana, etc.) is a female name of Sabine-Roman origin that became widespread in Eastern Europe. Variations * be, Тацця́на, Tatsiana * bg, Татяна, Tatyana * germa ...

as Naya Furmanova *

Boris Babochkin Boris Andreyevich Babochkin (russian: Бори́с Андре́евич Ба́бочкин; 18 January 1904 – 17 July 1975) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor and director. Boris Babochkin was one of the first internationally r ...

as Karavaev *

Pyotr Kirillov Pyotr Klavdievich Kirillov (russian: Пётр Клавдиевич Кириллов) (17 May 1895 – 14 January 1942) was a Soviet actor, film director, screenwriter. He died on January 14, 1942, during the Siege of Leningrad. Selected fi ...

as partisan Eryskin * Valery Solovtsov as Vinchetsky * Nikolay Zimenko as Shegabutdinov

Critical response

Film critic Mikhail Bleiman observed:Петербургский Некрополь
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Working with a benevolent viewer in mind does not educate him, but only excites him for a second. This primitive method was used to make ''Mutiny''. It is made with the expectation of constant reaction, guaranteed applause. That is why the film did not like the filmmakers who watched the work, and liked the Red Army men who watched the events for the first time.

References

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