Fiery Shore (1973)

Fiery Shore is a black-and-white adventure film directed by Uchkun Nazarov at Uzbekfilm, who wrote the script with Dmitry Vasiliu. It is set in 1924, the first year of Soviet rule in Khiva: a group of Komsomol members sets out for Moscow to study, and their journey crosses steppes and deserts still haunted by basmachi bands and scattered counter-revolutionaries. The cast includes Hamza Umarov, Bakhtiyor Ikhtiyorov, Murod Rajabov, Aida Yunusova, Dilorom Qambarova and Razzak Hamraev.