As the Bolsheviks attempt to establish their authority among the Muslim peoples of Central Asia., rebel bands, known as basmachis, carry out deadly raids on peaceful villages. When most of the locals—even members of his militia—join forces with Khairulla, the charasmatic basmachi leader, Maxumov, the area’s communist leader, decides to give himself up—hoping that once in custody he might be able to convince the people that Khairulla just seeks to exploit them. More nuanced and psychologically richer than your typical “eastern” action film, The Seventh Bullet avoids cultural clichés and stereotypes, giving each character the chance to offer their views and the reasons for them. The screenplay was co-written by Andrei Konchalovsky.

This is a so-called “Soviet Eastern”–comparable to American Westerns–set in the wilds of Central Asia during the Russian Civil War. It’s a superb action film, heavily influenced by Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Westerns — the score even sounds like an Ennio Morricone pastiche.

Here’s a review by the Chicago Reader’s J.R. Jones:
Uzbek director Ali Khamraev enjoyed his greatest success with this 1972 action movie, a prime example of the “Red westerns” that flourished during the Soviet era. With its dramatic landscapes and tense psychological struggles, the movie might pass for one of the classic Hollywood westerns of Budd Boetticher and Anthony Mann, except that the antagonists here are not cowboys and Indians but valiant soldiers of the Red Army and savage Islamists of the Basmachi Rebellion, which unfolded in Central Asia after the Russian Revolution. The hero is a Soviet officer, assigned to a village in the mountains of Uzbekistan, who returns from an expedition to learn that a fearsome rebel leader has slaughtered several locals and indoctrinated the rest; the officer sets off in hot pursuit, confident that he can win back the villagers by schooling them in the glories of communism. The movie is impressive as genre filmmaking, though ultimately—like many of our westerns—it’s most fascinating as an expression of state power. In Russian with subtitles.

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Triptych is the story of three women: an illiterate girl who wants to build a house, a school teacher representing authority who goes to a northern Uzbekistan village where traditions and strict Moslem practices have kept the people subjugated, and an old woman kidnapped in her youth by a poor peasant thereby making her his property.

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A young Uzbekistani man, whose widower father was a drunkard, finally finds the grown-up mentoring he craves when his father dies and he meets an old man who teaches him about the necessity of resisting tyranny. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

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