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The Bodyguard

The Bodyguard

19794.51h 30m

Overview

The setting is Central Asia during the Russian civil war. In the post-revolutionary twenties, when the power in European Russia was (officially) "fully in the hands of the workers and peasants", but the fight against the Basmachi rebels was in full swing. When a Red Army detachment captures Sultan Mazar, the brains behind the Bazmachi contingent, a decision is made to escort urgently the prisoner to the Bukhara province. The difficult mission is entrusted to a grizzled mountain trapper and conscientious revolutionary called Mirzo. His expertise is essential to traverse the precarious paths and steep mountain ridges along the way, impossible terrain for the inexperienced. A group consisting of Mirzo, his brother Kova, the Sultan, his daughter Zaranghis and slave Saifulla set off on this journey. They are forced to fight on the mountain ridges as well as negotiate the natural dangers and harsh elements.

Directed by Ali Khamraev
Written by Ali Khamraev
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Top Cast

Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy

Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy

Mirzo

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Sultan Nazar

Shavkat Abdusalamov

Shavkat Abdusalamov

Fottabek

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Gulcha Tashbayeva

Aibash

Mykola Hrynko

Mykola Hrynko

Nikolai Grigorievich

Anvara Alimova

Anvara Alimova

Radzhab Adashev

Radzhab Adashev

S

Saidmurad Ziyautdinov

Anvar Kenjaev

Anvar Kenjaev

M

Maksud Mansurov

About The Bodyguard

The Bodyguard is a action, western, history, adventure film released in 1979. Directed by Ali Khamraev, it stars Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Shavkat Abdusalamov. The setting is Central Asia during the Russian civil war. In the post-revolutionary twenties, when the power in European Russia was (officially) "fully in the hands of the workers and peasants", but the fight against the Basmachi rebels was in full swing. When a Red Army detachment captures Sultan Mazar, the brains behind the Bazmachi contingent, a decision is made to escort urgently the prisoner to the Bukhara province. The difficult mission is entrusted to a grizzled mountain trapper and conscientious revolutionary called Mirzo. His expertise is essential to traverse the precarious paths and steep mountain ridges along the way, impossible terrain for the inexperienced. A group consisting of Mirzo, his brother Kova, the Sultan, his daughter Zaranghis and slave Saifulla set off on this journey. They are forced to fight on the mountain ridges as well as negotiate the natural dangers and harsh elements.

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