Peshavar Waltz Explained

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.

Plot summary

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.

Awards

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]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 29th festival . kviff.com . 23 March 2018.