Upolnomochen revolyutsiey (1987)

Authorised by the Revolution is a three-part television film directed by Zinoviy Roizman, made by Uzbekfilm for the USSR State Broadcasting Committee. It deals with the military side of establishing Soviet power in Turkestan in 1919, when the struggle against the basmachi was led by Valerian Kuibyshev and Mikhail Frunze. The cast includes Nikolai Eremenko Jr. as Kuibyshev, Sergei Nikonenko as Frunze and Shukhrat Irgashev as Ryskulov.