Peshavar Waltz (1994)

Original title

Пешаварский вальс

Directed by

Timur Bekmambetov

Genre

action film, war film

Country

Russia

Runtime

1h 26m

Rating

2.7 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An American reporter and a doctor travel to a military base in Pakistan to document the conditions of prisoners of war. While they are there, the Soviet prisoners stage an uprising and take control of the base.

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What happens

Peshawar Waltz (Russian: Пешаварский вальс, romanized: 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. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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