Peshavarskiy Vals

caption = "Peshavarskiy Vals" movie poster
director = Timur Bekmambetov Gennadi Kayumov
producer = Iskona Film
writer = Timur Bekmambetov Gennadi Kayumov
starring = Barry Kushner, Viktor Verzhbitsky, Aleksey Shemes
music = Alexander Voitinskyi
cinematography = Fyodor Aranyshev, Sergei Trofimov
editing =
distributor =
released = flagicon|Russia 1994
runtime = 86 min.
country = Russia
language = Russian
budget =
imdb_id = 0110817

"Peshavarskiy vals" (also known as "Peshawar Waltz") is a Russian action film released 1994. The film is a compelling depiction of war in Afghanistan, based on actual events: the uprising of Soviet captives taken place in Badaber, 24 km from the Peshawar, Pakistan. A later version of the film, "Escape from Afghanistan", was released by Corman with an English language soundtrack as a direct-to-video production in 2002.

Plot Summary

An American reporter and doctor (British and French in the original version) come to a military base in Pakistan to document P.O.W. conditions. While there, the Soviet prisoners rise up and take over the base, holding the visitors hostage and slaughtering their captors with no mercy.

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