The Seventh Bullet is a Soviet Ostern film of 1972 directed by Ali Khamraev. In the same tradition as The White Sun of the Desert and The Bodyguard, The Seventh Bullet is set after the Russian Civil War which ended in the 1920s when Soviet power established itself in Central Asia in the wake of the Basmachi rebellion. Despite this slight shift in emphasis and a post-war setting, The Seventh Bullet is closer to a typical war film than other Red Westerns because of a prominence of tactical resourcefulness in the development of the plot. Although of course this is a staple of many American Westerns from John Ford's cavalry series to the many Apache war films.
Despite the restoration of Soviet power in the area, Basmachis continue to arrive from across the border, bringing death and destruction to peaceful villages. One of the bands of rebels is led by Khairulla who is pitted against the militsiya (local militia) leader Maxumov. At first it seems hopeless for Maxumov as the rebels capture most of his men, winning them over to his side. He has only one strategy left; to give himself up, and try to explain to the people that Khairulla has deceived them, turning the soldiers back to revolution. Later in pursuit of his enemy, he chases Khairulla across a river. He has only one bullet left—the seventh, and he must not miss his target!

In a film that’s been compared with the work of Paradjanov for its colorful, mystical, and myth-based story, Khamraev fashions a fragmented, dreamlike coming-of-age tale. Medieval Uzbekistan is the setting for an odyssey that launches an orphaned boy into a harsh world, where first love is brutally trumped by aristocratic privilege, friendship is fragile and fleeting, and violent challenges lurk at every turn. Khamraev’s triumph is in creating a fairytale world of wonder that transforms the tawdriness of reality.

影片根据真实事件改编。
苏联货船“涅任号”（注：Нежин，苏联切尔尼戈夫州城市）满载货物返航回国，船舱里装载着一种特殊物品——鸦片，它是为苏联医药工厂采购的生产原料。众所周知，鸦片也可以被当作毒品来使用，因此在海上长途运输这批价值昂贵的货物是冒着很大风险的。
“涅任号”在公海航行... 一天，值班水手发现前方不远处海面上漂着一个人，大家赶忙把他搭救上船。谁也没有料想到，可怜的“海难幸存者”竟是一名海盗。原来，贩毒集团盯上了“涅任号”运载的货物，因此花大价钱雇了一伙现代海盗来劫船，而这个所谓的“落水者”就是海盗们派出来的先锋。“落水者”利用苏联船员的善良骗取了信任，然后开始一步步实施他的罪恶计划：破坏船上机械设施，使“涅任号”失去动力和战斗力，接着发出信号让海盗船前来洗劫...
海盗的阴谋得逞了，涅任号及其装载的鸦片被匪徒们控制，苏联船员沦为阶下囚。不仅如此，为杜绝后患，毫无怜悯之心的匪徒们打算把全体苏联船员杀掉灭口...
在苍茫的大海上，势单力薄的苏联船员与20世纪的海盗们展开了殊死的战斗...
参加影片演出的有若干空手道高手。

A Bolshevik army officer and Uzbek who has been nursed back to health by a young Uzbek woman to whom he is now married, gains responsibility for the local village in 1929. He is urged by comrades in Tashkent to have the local women drop their chadors and veils but he is also told that he should not force this on anyone. His wife declines to take off her veil, so a 14 year old girl steps forward to set the example, over the objections of the local Muslim clergy and most of the village men. After the girl is killed, and the commissar is shot, his wife takes him to the hills to nurse him back to health once again. She begs her husband to leave the village. Instead when he decides to return, she is pressured by her father to continue to wear the veil.