Central Asia during the Civil War. The Jarkent battalion of the Red Army, located in the Verny (now Alma-Ata), receives an order from Frunze to go to the Fergana region to fight the Basmachi. A group of kulaks, with the support of local merchants and beys, incites the unconscious, wavering mass of the Red Army to revolt. The anti-Soviet agitation of counter-revolutionaries, demagogically exploiting the mood of war weariness, provokes an open mutiny in the battalion.
as Frunze
as Dmitriy Furmanov
as Naya Furmanova
as Burov, division commander
as Vinchetskiy
as Karavaev
as Yeryskin, partisan
as Shegabutdinov, district military commissar
as Semenchuk
as Petrov, rebel
as Cheusov, rebel leader
as Kolyshev, party school director
as Kokanbai
as (uncredited)
