Nabi Ganiyev

Early silent film from Uzbekistan: Adolat lives happily with her mother and father, leading a joyous life alongside her best friend, Qumri, who is later married to Umar. But this happiness comes to an end the day she is given in marriage as a second wife to the wealthy merchant Taki Bai, whose first wife Kadhija is infertile.

Just married to Said Vali, a rich merchant, young and pretty Tilla Oi thinks she will surprise and please her husband by dressing in European style. What a mistake; not only does she immediately lose all his esteem but she begins what will be for her a terrible descent into hell.

Kyrgyzstan during the civil war (1920s). It follows the drama of a young woman, Aidzhamal, who marries a man she doesn’t love, and her beloved shepherd, Kalymbet.

At the center of the story is the family drama of farmer Jalil from the village of Rawat, his wanderings and attempts to save his beloved girl Karaman. Her father is in debt to the local bai Abdu-Nabi and gives his daughter to him as his wife. In the vicinity of the village, the remains of Akram Khan's Basmachi gang are rampaging. Abdu-Nabi maintains a close connection with Rawat’s “jackals”. Jalil goes to the mountains to the Basmachi...