Salavat Yulayev
About Salavat Yulayev
Salavat, a village elder's son, strikes a tsarist officer and has to leave. The runaway convict Khlopusha helps him shake the soldiers. Salavat will not trust a Russian. Shared chains and mine labor change that. They escape, wander the Urals for two years, and meet Pugachev at a Cossack farm. Salavat goes home and raises Bashkir riders. Michelson's regulars, helped by a betrayal among Cossack elders, break the revolt. Khlopusha is killed. Traitors hand Pugachev over. Rich Bashkirs give up Salavat, and his friends get him out. In the mountains he tells them the Bashkir people will live at ease.
Cast & crew
More about Salavat Yulayev
Yakov Protazanov directed. Stepan Zlobin wrote the script, with Galina Spevak also credited on the English Wikipedia. Aleksandr Shelenkov photographed it. Aram Khachaturian wrote the music. Wikidata gives 72 minutes and a 1941 date. The English article heads the film as 1940. The catalog year kept here is 1941. The cast list includes Arslan Mubaryakov, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Georgy Millyar, Rim Syrtlanov, and Nikolay Gorlov.
Themes
Background
A Soviet biographical film about the Bashkir wing of Pugachev's rebellion, made at Soyuzdetfilm under Protazanov.
Look
Aleksandr Shelenkov photographed it.
Music
Aram Khachaturian composed the score.
Notes
- Salavat Yulayev (1754–1800) was a Bashkir poet and a commander in Pugachev's rising.
- Khlopusha is the Russian convict who starts as an enemy and becomes an ally.
- Michelson commands the government troops.
- Khachaturian wrote the score for a Soyuzdetfilm picture.
Scenes
- Salavat and Khlopusha meet Pugachev at a Cossack farm.
- Khlopusha is killed and Pugachev is handed over.
- Salavat speaks to his companions in the mountains.
Quotes
The Bashkir people will live at ease!
