| Peshawar Waltz | |
| Director: | Timur Bekmambetov Gennadi Kayumov |
| Producer: | Iskona Film |
| Starring: | Barry Kushner Viktor Verzhbitsky Aleksey Shemes |
| Music: | Alexander Voitinskyi |
| Cinematography: | Fyodor Aranyshev Sergei Trofimov |
| Runtime: | 86 minutes |
| Country: | Russia |
| Language: | Russian |
Peshawar Waltz (Russian: Пешаварский вальс, Peshavarskiy val's) is a 1994 Russian action film directed and written by Timur Bekmambetov. The film is a depiction of the Afghan war based on the events of the Badaber uprising of prisoners of war 24 km south of Peshawar, Pakistan. An English dub of the film titled Escape from Afghanistan was released on home video in 2002.
An American reporter and doctor (British and French in the original version) comes to a military base in Pakistan to document the P.O.W. conditions. While there, the Soviet prisoners rise up and take over the base.
At the 29th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the film was nominated for the Crystal Globe and Timur Bekmambetov won the Best Director Award.[1]