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The Wild East (1993)

The Wild East poster
Original title
Дикий Восток
Directed by
Rashid Nugmanov
Genre
Western film
Country
Kazakhstan
Runtime
1h 38m
Rating
4.9 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Kazakh village in the early 1990s is threatened by a local gang. A group of misfits is assembled to protect the community.

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What happens

The Wild East (Russian: Дикий восток, Dikiy vostok, Dikij vostok) is a Russian-language film created in Kazakhstan shortly after the dissolution of the Soviet Union released in 1993. It was written and directed by Rashid Nugmanov and was inspired by The Magnificent Seven, an American remake of Akira Kurosawa's film Seven Samurai. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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