Alim

Alim (1926)

DramaWestern

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

Casts

	Heiri Emirzade as Alim
	Assie Emir-zade as Sara
	Oleksandr Arbo as Police chief
	Mikhail Arbenin as Ibrahim Mirza, a rich man
	V. Kolpashnikov as Ali-bay, Alim’s master
	H. Marynchak as Rodzhen / Redzhen
	B. Goncharov as Murza Bat
	A. Narovskiy as Petrenko

Crew