The White Sun of the Desert (1969)

  • 12+
  • 12/14/1969 (SU)
  • Action, Drama, Romance, Comedy, Adventure, War
  • 1h 23m

Overview

The setting is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (today's Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in Russian Asia for a number of years. After being hospitalised and then demobbed, he sets off home to join his wife, only to be caught up in a desert fight between a Red Army cavalry unit and Basmachi guerrillas. The cavalry unit commander, Rahimov, "convinces" Sukhov to help, temporarily, with the protection of abandoned women of the Basmachi guerrilla leader Abdullah's harem. Leaving a young Red Army soldier, Petrukha, to assist Sukhov with the task, Rahimov and his cavalry unit set out to pursue fleeing Abdullah.Sukhov and women from Abdullah's harem return to a nearby shore town. Soon, looking for a seaway across the border, Abdullah and his gang come to the same town...

Vladimir Motyl

Director

Mark Zakharov

Writer

Valentin Ezhov

Writer

Rustam Ibragimbekov

Screenplay

Cast

Anatoliy Kuznetsov's headshot

Anatoliy Kuznetsov

Fyodor Sukhov
Pavel Luspekayev's headshot

Pavel Luspekayev

Pavel Vereshchagin
Spartak Mishulin's headshot

Spartak Mishulin

Said
Kakhi Kavsadze's headshot

Kakhi Kavsadze

Abdulla
Raisa Kurkina's headshot

Raisa Kurkina

Nastasya
Nikolai Godovikov's headshot

Nikolai Godovikov

Petrukha
Tatyana Fedotova's headshot

Tatyana Fedotova

Gyulchatay
Musa Dudayev's headshot

Musa Dudayev

Rakhimov

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