Examples of Tajikfilm's success during the Soviet times are such movies as "The Legend of Rustam", "The Legend of Rustam and Siavoush", and "The Legend of the Smith Kova", based on stories from Ferdowsi's "Shahnameh"; "First Morning of Adolescence" ("Юнности Первое Утро"), which tells the life story of people living in Badakhshan in the beginning of the Soviet Empire, when its army was still struggling with the Basmachi movement; a trilogy "New tales from Shaherizada", based on Arabic tales "One Thousand and One Nights".