''Fiery Roads'' (, ) was an Uzbek television series running from 1977 to 1984 based on the life of Uzbek enlightener
Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi.
Plot
The series was closely based on the novel "Hamza" by
Kamil Yashin, who was also the screenwriter, as well as the storybook "Furious Hamza" () by Lyubov Voronkova.
It depicts Hamza's struggles to promote the revolution and modernization against a background of feudalism and
Basmachi
The Basmachi movement (, derived from ) was an uprising against Imperial Russian and Soviet rule in Central Asia by rebel groups inspired by Islamic beliefs. It has been called "probably the most important movement of opposition to Soviet rul ...
terror.
Episodes
* 1978: Season 1 "Heart of a Poet", episodes 1-4
* 1979: Season 2 "In Search of Truth", episodes 5-8
* 1982: Season 3: "Singer of the Revolution", episodes 9-12
* 1983: Season 4: "Fighting Turkestan" episodes 13-14
* 1984: Season 5: "My Republic" episodes 15-17
Cast (partial list)
The diverse crew of the production consisted of various high-profile actors and actresses from across the Soviet Union, featuring cast members from
Uzbek,
Tajik,
Russian
Russian(s) may refer to:
*Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries
*A citizen of Russia
*Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages
*''The Russians'', a b ...
,
Kartvelian,
Tatar
Tatar may refer to:
Peoples
* Tatars, an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar"
* Volga Tatars, a people from the Volga-Ural region of western Russia
* Crimean Tatars, a people from the Crimea peninsula by the B ...
,
Ossetian, and other backgrounds.
* Oʻlmas Alixoʻjayev as Hamza
*
Nabi Rahimov as Ibn Yamin
* Poʻlat Saidqosimov as
Zavqiy
*
Yoqub Ahmedov as Sheikh Ismail-Kohja
* Abdulhayr Qosimov as Ahmadbai
* Dilorom Qambarova as Zubeida
*
Tamara Shakirova as Yulduzkhon
*
Bahodir Yoʻldoshev as Alchinbek
* Bimbolat Batayev as Sadykjan Salikhbayev
*
Razzoq Hamroyev as Sheikh Khazrat
* Javlon Hamroyev as Matkaul
*
Igor Dmitriev as Viktor Medynsky
* Danuta Stolarska as Mariya Medynskaya
*
Yuri Dubrovin as Nikolai Grigorievich
*
Yuri Gusev as Stepan Sokolov
*
Sergey Yakovlev as Russian doctor
* Shavkat Abdusalomov as Umid Abdusalamov
*
Murod Rajabov as Gafur
* Timofey Spivak as Richardson
*
Botir Zokirov as
Rabindranath Tagore
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* Shuhrat Ergashev as editor of "Kingash" magazine
*
Vsevolod Safonov as Comrade Andrey
* Nikolai Barmin as N. Barshin
*
Otar Koberidze as Dundar
* Tamara Yandiyeva as Rabia
* Viktor Saitov as
Mikhail Frunze
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze (; ; 2 February 1885 – 31 October 1925) was a Soviet revolutionary, politician, army officer and military theory, military theorist.
Born to a Bessarabian father and a Russian mother in Russian Turkestan, Frunze at ...
*
Lev Prygunov as
Dmitry Furmanov
*
Rasim Balayev as Emir of Bukhara
*
Natalya Varley as Mariya Kuznetsova
* Sanʼat Devonov as
Fayzulla Xoʻjayev
Fayzulla Ubaydulloyevich Xo‘jayev (; ; ) was a Bukharan politician who served as the first head of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic, which would later form part of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.
Early years
Xoʻjayev was born into a ...
* Genrikh Ostashevsky as Anton Petrovich
*
Gʻani Aʼzamov as a mullah
*
Zikir Muhammadjonov as Shavkat
References
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Soviet drama films
Russian-language drama films