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Wednesday, October 24, 2001

B-movie king rolls out 'Escape From Afghanistan'
By JAM! Movies

B-movie legend Roger Corman, the master of the quick, cheap box-office haul, has purchased the rights to an obscure 1994 Russian action film set against that country's Afghanistan conflict.

The Hollywood Reporter said "Peshavar Waltz" was directed by Timur Bekmambetov and Gennadiy Kajumov and tells the story of a group of Soviet soldiers who escape from an Afghani POW camp.

In the shadow of the U.S.'s ongoing military campaign in Afghanistan, Corman's company, New Concorde, has purchased the film's distribution rights, retitled it "Escape From Afghanistan", and will release it to theatres in two versions: one all-English and one featuring a mixture of English and Russian dialogue.

The movie was nominated for best picture at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1994, the report said. It won a share of the best director award.

Corman, whose production resume includes drive-in fair such as "Swamp Girl," "Beast With A Million Eyes," "Sorority Girl," "Teenage Cave Man" and "She-Gods Of Shark Reef," has re-edited the film to emphasize the American characters.