Taki Bai
Early silent film from Uzbekistan: Adolat lives happily with her mother and father, leading a joyous life alongside her best friend, Qumri, who is later married to Umar. But this happiness comes to an end the day she is given in marriage as a second wife to the wealthy merchant Taki Bai, whose first wife Kadhija is infertile.
Arsena Odzelashvili
Following an order of the landowner, the bride of Arsena’s fellow villager gets kidnapped and the bride’s father is relentlessly flogged. Arsena tries to rescue the woman but fails and goes to the mountains with his newly married wife. Above all, Arsena learns that his wife is impregnated by the landowner and burns down his house. Arsena gets arrested, but manages to escape and joins the rebel peasants. Arsena feels that with the passage of time the rebels turn into criminals and continues to fight with the oppressors alone.
