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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Rebel Farm
2023-12-24
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
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[ColonelCassad] Summary.

After the revolution and the assassination of the tsar, revolutionaries came to power and began sending food detachments to the distant regions of the former empire, where civil war was still going on and banditry was rampant, to restore order and collect food. A commissar with a food detachment and revolutionary sailors arrives on a remote farm where 40-50 people live on the armored train "Dawn of the Revolution" and demands that the local kulaks give him grain for the revolutionary army and the working people.

In times of famine, local kulaks hold back the surplus and try to deceive the commissar by declaring that they have no extra grain. But you can’t fool the commissar; these are not the first fists to hide surplus grain. He finds another cowardly kulak who was secretly selling grain to a gang of "greens". The gang was led by brother and sister Toporov, who attacked and robbed in remote areas of the province. The cowardly fist surrenders to the commissar of the main fist and he is executed according to the laws of war, and the community is required to hand over hidden surpluses and part of the harvest within 2.5 months. A detachment of soldiers is left for control.

Among the soldiers, decomposed elements are found who are prone to revolutionary banditry, as well as avenging their farm labor, and they begin to oppress the kulaks even more. It comes to a riot, which is started by the adopted daughter of one of the old regime generals. After the revolution, she hid on a farm under the guise of a peasant woman. Having killed almost all the soldiers, the kulaks realize that soon the security officers and a detachment of soldiers with guns and airplanes will come from the province on an armored train, so they decide to start an uprising and put an end to the surplus appropriation in their farmstead, and then in the province. The fate of the entire revolution is at stake!

To do this, the adopted daughter teams up with the Grand Duke, who is on the run, a Chinese woman who came to work in the empire and studied the art of the samurai during the war with the Japanese, a cowardly fist from a farm, an old regime general who served the revolution and lost all the soldiers on Kolchak’s fronts, as well as with a criminal who secretly exported icons abroad. Having collected money from their fists to buy dashing people, they unite on a counter-revolutionary basis with a gang of brother and sister Toporovs, famous for their bloody atrocities and robbery of a county bank.

Following the gang's trail is a detachment of detectives who learn that the counter-revolutionary gang underground is supplying the bourgeois regime of one province that has broken away from the empire, which leads to revolutionary retribution that puts an end to subversion against the revolutionary state. Then, thanks to a criminal element that had infiltrated the gang and was promised an amnesty, a quarterly bonus and a letter from the commissar, it is possible to establish the meeting place of a dangerous gang of kulak members. They were just planning an insidious attack on the armored train "Dawn of the Revolution".

The security officers underestimated the danger of the gang and ran into fierce resistance.

During a short skirmish, most of the Toporov gang was destroyed, including Toporov himself, but a small detachment of detectives fell victim to a series of absurd accidents, and the commissar, who was collecting grain for the starving, died under the rubble of a derailed armored train.

The film ends with the surviving members of the gang, having worked off the kulaks' money, going to a farm, where they are going to drink the money they received and admire the sunsets.

But, intrigue! The commissar did not die, the proletarian hatred of the fists did not allow him to die. From the revolutionary command he receives an order - to catch the adopted daughter of the general, who now serves the new revolutionary government, and to defeat the bandit underground in the farmstead in order to restore revolutionary legality and prevent the growth of the rebellion in the neighboring farmsteads. We are waiting for the second film.

This was a summary of the movie "Rebel Moon".

The movie is funny junk. This is really a movie about the struggle between fists and surplus appropriation in a fantasy setting.

Posted by:badanov

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