Fiery Roads

Fiery Roads (Огненные дороги, Olovli yoʻllar) was an Uzbek television series running from 1977 to 1984 based on the life of Uzbek enlightener Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi.

Plot
The film was closely based on the novel "Hamza" by Kamil Yashin, who was the screenwriter for the series, as well as the storybook "Furious Hamza." (Неистовый Хамза by Lyubov Voronkova. The film depicts Hamza's struggles to promote the revolution and modernization against a background of feudalism and Basmachi terror.

Episodes

 * 1978: Season 1 "Heart of a Poet", episodes 1-4
 * 1979: Season 2 "In Search of Truth", episodes 5-8
 * 1982: Season 3: "Singer of the Revolution", episodes 9-12
 * 1983: Season 4: "Fighting Turkestan" episodes 13-14
 * 1984: Season 5: "My Republic" episodes 15-17

Cast (partial list)
The diverse crew of the production consisted of various high-profile actors and actresses from across the Soviet Union, featuring cast members from Uzbek, Tajik, Russian, Kartvelian, Tatar, Ossetian, and other backgrounds.
 * Oʻlmas Alixoʻjayev as Hamza
 * Nabi Rahimov as Ibn Yamin
 * Poʻlat Saidqosimov as Zavqiy
 * Yoqub Ahmedov as Sheikh Ismail-Kohja
 * Abdulhayr Qosimov as Ahmadbai
 * Dilorom Qambarova as Zubeida
 * Tamara Shakirova as Yulduzkhon
 * Bahodir Yoʻldoshev as Alchinbek
 * Bimbolat Batayev as Sadykjan Salikhbayev
 * Razzoq Hamroyev as Sheikh Khazrat
 * Javlon Hamroyev as Matkaul
 * Igor Dmitriev as Viktor Medynsky
 * Danuta Stolarska as Mariya Medynskaya
 * Yuri Dubrovin as Nikolai Grigorievich
 * Yuri Gusev as Stepan Sokolov
 * Sergey Yakovlev as Russian doctor
 * Shavkat Abdusalomov as Umid Abdusalamov
 * Murod Rajabov as Gafur
 * Timofey Spivak aș Richardson
 * Botir Zokirov as Rabindranath Tagore
 * Shuhrat Ergashev as editor of "Kingash" magazine
 * Vsevolod Safonov as Comrade Andrey
 * Nikolai Barmin as N. Barshin
 * Otar Koberidze as Dundar
 * Tamara Yandiyeva as Rabia
 * Viktor Saitov as Mikhail Frunze
 * Lev Prygunov as Dmitry Furmanov
 * Rasim Balayev as Emir of Bukhara
 * Natalya Varley as Mariya Kuznetsova
 * Sanʼat Devonov as Fayzulla Xoʻjayev
 * Genrikh Ostashevsky as Anton Petrovich
 * Gʻani Aʼzamov as a mullah
 * Zikir Muhammadjonov as Shavkat