Summary: Forty minutes of footage from the film
Inqilab-e-Sawr (The April Revolution), a reenactment of the 1978 Afghan coup d'état, went missing when sent to Uzebekistan for color processing in 1978. These three and half minutes later turned up in this 1980 documentary by Uzbek filmmaker Malek Kayoumov, Afghanistan: The Revolution Continues, initiating a grudge held for decades by the Afghan filmmakers involved in this film. In 2017 we tracked down Kayoumov's film and bought those clips from the Krasnogorsk archive, returning the footage to Afghan Films. Deputy PDPA party leader Hafizullah Amin, who initiated the reenactment project, plays himself in these scenes.
Footage source: telecine to HD file from print at Krasnogorsk archive, licensed by Mariam Ghani