Valentin Maksimenkov

The Hostage

20-th years. In the mountainous regions of the Pamirs, a dangerous epidemic is rampant. There was sent a caravan with a vaccine, followed closely by the local bandits as the hostage in the caravan should be, as they learned, their leader. It is not known to them only one thing: the leader is a double ...

Don't Shoot at the Pass!

One of the mountain passes of Tajikistan, which is an important strategic object, is controlled by the Basmati detachment of Kurbashi Kerim Dodho, who is respected by the people. The head of the OGPU Paramonov, in order to avoid bloodshed, convinces Kurbashi of the expediency of holding peace talks. However, the counterrevolutionary group, which has its own people in the militia units, is trying to interfere with the negotiations between Paramonov and Dodho, a Bolshevik sympathizer.

Beacon Lamp

An old, sick keeper and a girl, Maral, live at the lighthouse. It is unknown how long the girl would have lived as a hermit at the lighthouse if not for the love that arose between her and the boat captain Murad, who brought the doctor to the sick old man...

Habib the Lord of Snakes

The action takes place in the 1920s in the mountains of Tajikistan in a small lost village. Habib's shepherd boy has a hard time living with Malika, a strange woman, but the boy does not become embittered and does not harden his soul. He rescues a puppy from a mountain stream, takes care of an injured baby goat, and even tames snakes. Could he have known that he would become a participant in great events?..