Alim

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Heorhiy Tasin

Writers

Mykola Bazhan, Ipchi Ümer

Language

Ukrainian

Country

Soviet Union

Release date

30 November 1926

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  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