Word: gelayev
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...parents will never allow me to go there," the Georgian female lead, Nata Gulyashvili, kept telling Mazayev as they rehearsed in Tbilisi. They eventually agreed that she wouldn't tell her family they were shooting in Pankisi. Mazayev obtained the blessing of the local Chechen guerrilla commander, Ruslan Gelayev, and fighters sometimes hovered on the fringes of the set. One became so smitten with Gulyashvili that he requested Mazayev's permission to speak to her. Mazayev politely fended him off. More sinister figures, probably local gangsters, watched from a distance but didn't interfere. Word had gone out from Gelayev...