Bulat-Batır

1928 · Directed by Yuri Tarich · 81 min · drama film, silent film

★ 4.0/10 · 4 ratings on TMDB

In a small Tatar village during the traditional holiday of the beginning of plowing, monks appear accompanied by soldiers. Trying to convert the local population to Orthodoxy by force, the monks and soldiers meet a tough rebuff from the locals. The wife of the peasant Bulat dies, and his son Asfan is taken away in an unknown direction.