Peshavar Waltz
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Initial DVD release June 25, 2002 (USA) Duration | 6/10 IMDb Genre War Music director Alexandr Voytinskiy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Director Timur BekmambetovGennadi Kayumov Release date 1994 (Russia) Cast (Dubois), Gennadi Kayumov , Barry Kushner (Charlie Palmer), Aleksey Shemes , Sergey Plotnikov Similar movies Movies about the Soviet war in Afghanistan, Movies about Afghanistan, Action movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peshawar Waltz (Russian: Пешаварский вальс, Peshavarskiy val's), also known as Escape from Afghanistan is a 1994 Russian action film directed and written by Timur Bekmambetov. The film is a compelling depiction of war in Afghanistan, based on actual events: the uprising of Soviet captives taken place in Badaber, 24 km from the Peshawar, Pakistan. A later version of the film, Escape from Afghanistan, was released by Corman with an English language soundtrack as a direct-to-video production 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 being there, the Soviet prisoners rise up and take over the base.
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