Peshawar Waltz

Peshawar Waltz

Where duty ends... their battle for survival begins

1994 · 86 min · ★ 2.7 · War, Drama

During the Russian war with Afghanistan in the 1980s, journalist Charlie Palmer and medic Victor Davis arrive at a P.O.W. camp near the Afghanistan/Pakistan border in order to document the sub-human conditions which the prisoners are forced to endure. During their visit, the prisoners seize control of the camp and begin to enact a series of terrible and bloody punishments on their captors. Held as hostages, Palmer and Davis are forced to witness acts of barbarity unlike any they have ever seen before.

Directed by Gennady Kayumov · Written by Gennady Kayumov

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