Hadji Murad

Hadji Murad is a traitor, a Chechen soldier who, during his own people's struggle against Tsar Nicholas I, abandons his comrades to join the Russian enemy, setting out along a parable that will lead him to suffer the inevitable consequences of his choice. Then, in the background of his personal and dramatic story is the devastation of war: the looted and destroyed houses and villages, the death, and the weeping of mothers over the corpses of their children testify with shocking actuality to...