Rebellion (1928)

Staged scenes and footage: peaceful life in Turkestan in 1920. A sentry-observer on the roof of one of the guard posts.

A Basmach kills an observer.

A gang of Basmachi gallops across the steppe.

A staging of a border outpost being raised on alert and a battle with the Basmachi.

Basmachi robbing civilians.

A wounded Red Army soldier manages to telegraph a message about a Basmachi attack.

Views of Tashkent (above).

The building where the headquarters of the Turkestan Front was located in 1920. Members of the headquarters read the text of the telegram about the Basmachi raid and the destruction of the border outpost (staging).

Members of the headquarters decide to send a battalion from Verny to Fergana (staging).

View of the Kazakh steppe.

Artillerymen and Red Army soldiers of the Jarkent Battalion in the city of Verny during rest (staging).

Battalion commander Karavaev talks to a peasant who has arrived at the battalion (staging).

The battalion during rest.

A Kyrgyz language lesson at a literacy course, Commissar D. Furmanov at his desk (staging).

Furmanov answers the lesson at the blackboard, gets an "unsatisfactory" (staging).

The head of the party school Kolyshev calls Furmanov to the direct line (staging).

Furmanov receives by telegraph and reads out an order to transfer the Dzharkent battalion to Fergana to fight the Basmachi (staging).

Frunze receives Furmanov's reply about his readiness to carry out the order (staging).

Staged scene: an empty rifle pyramid, garbage on the floor.

Red Army soldiers lie on bare bunks.

The interior of the battalion barracks, Furmanov enters the barracks.

Staging, staged scenes: the rebels are making plans for a conspiracy to raise an uprising in the Jarkent Battalion.

Mountain landscapes, mountains covered in fog.

Staging, staged scenes: the Red Army soldiers of the battalion in the barracks awaiting the signal to advance.

Furmanov and the members of the headquarters receive information about the conspiracy from the head of the special department.

The battalion personnel, unwilling to go to the front, are sent from the barracks to the fortress.

The battalion occupies the territory of the fortress.

Furmanov at headquarters gives orders to suppress the mutiny in the Jarkent Battalion.

A mounted messenger sends for reinforcements.

The commander of the rebel battalion sends mounted patrols to all exits from Verny.

Furmanov at headquarters.

The messenger escapes from the pursuit of the rebels.

Arrival of new rebel forces at the fortress, led by the chief of police Cheusov.

Arrival of the party school personnel at Furmanov's headquarters.

Furmanov explains the current situation.

Rebel forces gather in the fortress.

Representatives of the rich and poor speak at a rally.

Distribution of weapons to the kulaks.

Cheusov reads out an announcement about the creation of a new authority - the Combat Council.

Drunkenness among the rebels.

The rebel headquarters receives delegations of kulaks and escaped criminals, listens to their complaints about the Soviet government.

A meeting of Furmanov's headquarters, members of the headquarters propose various courses of action.

Members of the headquarters make a decision.

Furmanov signs the order.

Staging and staged scenes: the headquarters is preparing to repel an attack by the rebels.

Partisan Yeryskin, with his hands raised, walks to the doors of the headquarters.

Yeryskin asks for an opportunity to atone for his guilt before the Soviet government.

A meeting in the rebel garrison of the fortress.

The wives of kulaks present the rebels with bread and salt.

A delegation of criminals presents the battalion commander with a stolen watch.

An old Kazakh makes claims against the rebel commander, who drives him away.

The old man leads a group of Kazakhs out of the fortress.

Yeryskin calls on the rebels not to storm the headquarters.

Furmanov and members of the headquarters during a meeting.

A dead messenger lies on the bank of a mountain river.

Members of the ShBA await the assault.

The rebel troops gather at the headquarters.

Cheusov enters the headquarters for negotiations.

Cheusov sets out the demands of the rebel garrison of the fortress.

The political department instructor tries to defect to the rebels, but the headquarters members hold him back and disarm him.

The headquarters guards take the traitor away.

Furmanov and his comrades head to the rebel fortress.

Rebel troops in the fortress.

Dramatization and staged scenes: Furmanov and his comrades in the rebel fortress.

Furmanov speaks to the rebel troops, faces of the characters in the film.

Staging of a meeting battle between a unit of the Red Army and the Polish gentry during the Soviet-Polish war.

Staging of a skirmish with the Basmachi in Fergana, Furmanov continues to speak to the rebels.

The Red Army soldiers listen to Furmanov and begin to argue whether they did the right thing.

Cheusov and battalion commander Karavaev call for Furmanov and his comrades to be beaten.

Furmanov is captured and sentenced to be shot.

Yeryskin stops the reprisal, calls for a trial.

The prisoners are taken to the basement.

The rebels begin to feast.

Furmanov and his comrades are locked in a cell.

The head of the party school is at headquarters.

A Chinese man brings news of the arrest of Furmanov and his comrades to the members of headquarters.

Yeryskin gathers people on the street to save the commissar.

The headquarters members arm themselves and go out into the street.

Telegraphic correspondence with the headquarters of the Turkestan Front about the lack of immediate help.

Arrested people in a cell of the fortress guardhouse.

A meeting of the rebel headquarters, the decision to shoot the prisoners.

Furmanov and his comrade sing in the cell.

Karavaev enters the cell.

Staging and staged scenes: Furmanov and his comrades before the execution.

Karavaev commands the execution.

Cadets of the party school rush to the rescue of their comrades.

The rebel leaders flee.

Furmanov and his comrades thank Yeryskin for saving them from execution.

Karavaev bursts into the location of the rebel battalion.

Cheusov at headquarters tells about Furmanov's execution.

The rescued members of headquarters, led by Furmanov, enter the building.

Furmanov calls for immediate reinforcements.

Furmanov and two members of headquarters go to the 4th Cavalry Regiment for reinforcements.

A meeting in the rebel battalion, Cheusov calls for a pursuit of the fugitives, the Red Army soldiers refuse to obey.

Furmanov and his comrades, noticing the pursuit, hide behind the bushes.

The Chinese man leads Furmanov along a hidden path.

The rebels ride off in pursuit.

The Chinese man brings horses, the staff members mount and ride away.

The 4th Cavalry Regiment at a halt.

Cleaning and washing the horses.

The Red Army soldiers drink tea.

Furmanov and his comrades arrive at the regiment.

The rebels roll out a cannon to fire at the staff.

Staging and staging prices: the rebels are moving artillery to the headquarters.

The 4th Cavalry Regiment comes to the rescue.

The headquarters members fire back from a machine gun.

Artillery shelling of the headquarters.

The defenders of the headquarters repel the rebel attack.

The rebels make a breach in the wall of the headquarters.

The Red Army soldiers of the rebel battalion begin to leave their position, Karavaev scolds them, demands that they return back.

The rebels attack the headquarters.

The defenders of the headquarters barricade themselves in the building.

The rebels break down the door, the defenders of the headquarters sort out their last cartridges.

The 4th Cavalry Regiment hurries to the rescue, the rebel leaders break down the door.

The cavalrymen attack Karavaev and his henchmen, the rebels raise their hands.

The rebels are beaten with rifle butts.

Faces of the rescued defenders of the headquarters.

The cavalrymen led by Furmanov break into the fortress, the rebel battalion surrenders.

Furmanov gives the order to the battalion to set out on a campaign tomorrow morning.

The battalion sets out on a campaign to Fergana the following morning, Furmanov greets the Red Army soldiers.