Alim
1926
Ukrainian SSR
Second Film Studio VUFKU (Yalta)
8 parts
triller
Heorhii Tasin
Mykola Bazhan based on Ipchi Ümer’s play
Volodymyr Lemke, Mykhailo Bielskyi, Andrii Maine
Robert Scharfenberg
Hayri Emir-zade (Alim, a Crimean bandit), Assie Emir-zade (Sara), M. Arbenin (Ibrahim Mirza, a rich man), V. Kolpashnikov (Ali-bay, Alim’s master), Oleksandr Arbo (a district police officer), H. Marynchak (Rodzhen, a bandit (or second Alim / Redzhen), K. Umerov (Bekir, Alim’s friend), N. (M.?) Platonov (a mullah), A. (O.?) Narovskyi (Petrenko, a revolutionary), B. Honcharov (Bat Mirza)
Crimea. The middle of the 19th century. A proud and brave jigit Alim 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.