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The Bodyguard is a film of genre Action directed by Ali Hamroyev with Alexandre Kaïdanovski
The Bodyguard (1979)
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Add to a movie listThe Bodyguard (Russian: Телохранитель, Telokhranitel), is a 1979 Soviet film released by Tadjikfilm. It is one of the best known of the Red Westerns and directed by the veteran feature and documentary maker, Ali Khamraev.
The Bodyguard is a journey Ostern reminiscent of such bounty hunter Westerns as Anthony Mann's The Naked Spur or Budd Boetticher's Ride Lonesome. The parallels are particularly pertinent to the former as it is a savage tale, in which the arid, unforgiving landscape of Central Asian mountains mirrors the psychological intensity of the conflict between the characters, their grimly determined emotions and violent altercations.
The Bodyguard is also the title of a 1991 Soviet film directed by Aleksandr Ivanov.
Synopsis
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. (The same conflict turns up in White Sun of the Desert). 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, pursued doggedly along the way by Fattobeck, the ruthless new head of the Basmachis. They are forced to fight on the mountain ridges as well as negotiate the natural dangers and harsh elements.Actors
Alexandre Kaïdanovski
Anatoli Solonitsyne
(Sultan Nazar)
Nikolai Grinko
(Nikolai Grigorievich)
Ali Hamroyev
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