Mutiny (1928 film)

Mutiny
Mutiny
	Russian: Мятеж
Directed by	Semyon Tymoshenko
Written by	Mikhail Bleiman; Semyon Tymoshenko
Starring	Pyotr Podvalny; Aleksey Alekseev; Tatyana Guretskaya; Boris Babochkin; Pyotr Kirillov;
Cinematography	Leonid Patlis
Production; company	Sovkino
Release date	1928;
Running time	87 min.
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Mutiny (Russian: Мятеж, romanized: Myatezh) is a 1928 Soviet war drama film directed by Semyon Tymoshenko based on the novel of the same name by Dmitry Furmanov.^[1]^[2]

Plot

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.^[3]

Cast

Pyotr Podvalny as Mikhail Frunze
Aleksey Alekseev as Dmitry Furmanov
Tatyana Guretskaya as Naya Furmanova
Boris Babochkin as Karavaev^[4]
Pyotr Kirillov as partisan Eryskin
Valery Solovtsov as Vinchetsky
Nikolay Zimenko as Shegabutdinov

Critical response

Film critic Mikhail Bleiman observed:^[5]

Working with a benevolent viewer in mind does not educate him, but only excites him for a second. This primitive method was used to make Mutiny. It is made with the expectation of constant reaction, guaranteed applause. That is why the film did not like the filmmakers who watched the work, and liked the Red Army men who watched the events for the first time.