Peshavar Waltz

1994 Russian film

Peshawar Waltz

Directed by| Timur Bekmambetov
Gennadi Kayumov
Written by| Timur Bekmambetov
Gennadi Kayumov
Produced by| Iskona Film
Starring| Barry Kushner
Viktor Verzhbitsky
Aleksey Shemes
Cinematography| Fyodor Aranyshev
Sergei Trofimov
Music by| Alexander Voitinskyi

Release date

* 1994 (1994) (Russia)

Running time

| 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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

* Badaber Uprising

## References[edit]

1. ^ "29th festival". kviff.com. Retrieved 23 March 2018.

## External links[edit]

* Peshavar Waltz at AllMovie
* Peshavar Waltz at IMDb
* Escape from Afghanistan at IMDb

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Films directed by Timur Bekmambetov

* Peshavar Waltz (1994)
* The Arena (2001)
* Night Watch (2004)
* Day Watch (2006)
* The Irony of Fate 2 (2007)
* Wanted (2008)
* Yolki (2010)
* Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
* Yolki 1914 (2014)
* Ben-Hur (2016)
* Yolki 5 (2016)
* Profile (2018)
* V2. Escape from Hell (2021)
* Mercy (2025)

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