Hadji Murat

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Adapted faithfully from Leo Tolstoy’s final masterpiece, Hadji Murat follows the doomed rebellion of a legendary Avar warrior caught between the Russian Empire and his own Chechen people. Torn between loyalty and survival, Hadji Murat’s defiance becomes a meditation on power, faith, and the quiet dignity of resistance.

Set against the mountains and snow of the Caucasus, the film script captures Tolstoy’s late style—spare, unsparing, and luminous in its tragedy—where heroism flickers like a candle in the wind of history.