Haytarma

Haytarma
Directed byAkhtem Seitablaiev
Written byMykola Rybalka
Produced byLenur Isliamov
Ivanna Diadiura
StarringAkhtem Seitablaiev
Oleksiy Horbunov
CinematographyVolodymyr Ivanov
Music byDzhemil Karikov
Serhiy Kutsenko
Release date
  • 2013 (2013)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUkraine
LanguagesRussian
Crimean Tatar
Budget$1,500,000

Haytarma (Crimean Tatar: Qaytarma, lit.'return, homecoming', Russian: and Ukrainian: «Хайтарма») is a 2013 Ukrainian period drama film. It portrays Crimean Tatar flying ace and Hero of the Soviet Union Amet-khan Sultan against the background of the 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatars. Haytarma means "return", but is also the name of the most popular Crimean Tatar national dance.