When Emirs Die

When Emirs Die

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 20, 1932

Runtime

1h 10m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

Когда умирают эмиры

Production Companies

Tajikfilm

Director

Lydia Pechorina

Description

It depicts the establishment of kolkhoz (collective farming) in Bukhara. Poor dehkans are oppressed by bays and emir. One of them, unable to bear the slave labor, flees from his native land. A few years later, the fugitive returns and becomes an activist of the collective farm movement. Kulaks kill him and try to flood the collective farm fields with water. However, collective farmers stop the sabotage and reveal the secret of the murdered activist. The perpetrators are justifiably punished.