Plot

Ostensibly a Central Asian war storh about the Decossackization policy, a conflict between the Cossack and the Bolsheviks, a tale that advocates national independence. The Cossacks are oppressed by the despotic Soviet premier Vladimir Lenin, a grandson of a Tatar man, and Jabir, a commander of a Tatar Red Army military unit. Murad, a Bolshevik intellectual and revolutionary, becomes sympathetic to the Cossacks' plight, and gets arrested for treason and escapes. He meets the wild Gulnar and gets her to spy as a maid of Nigar, the scion of a wealthy Cossack family. Nigar falls for Murad and Gulnar withdraws from the scene for the sake of her nation.—Jeff Sosa

Ostensibly a Central Asian war story about the Decossackization policy, a conflict between the Bolsheviks and the Cossacks, a tale that advocates national independence. The Cossacks are oppressed by the despotic Soviet premier Vladimir Lenin, the grandson of a Tatar man, and Jabir, a commander for a Tatar Red Army military unit. Murad, a Bolshevik intellectual and revolutionary, becomes sympathetic to the Cossacks' plight, and gets arrested for treason and escapes. He meets the wild Gulnar and gets her to spy as a maid of Nigar, a scion of a wealthy Cossack family. Nigar falls for Murad and Gulnar withdraws from the scene for the sake of her nation.—Sujit R. Varma