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The White Sun of the Desert

The White Sun of the Desert

IMDB:

7.2
The White Sun of the Desert

Released

12/14/1969

Duration

1h 23m

Genre

Action, Drama, Romance, Comedy, Adventure, War

Country

Soviet Union

Cast

Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Pavel Luspekayev, Spartak Mishulin

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...

Cast

Anatoliy Kuznetsov

Sukhov

Anatoliy Kuznetsov

Pavel Luspekayev

Vereshchagin

Pavel Luspekayev

Spartak Mishulin

Said

Spartak Mishulin

Kakhi Kavsadze

Abdulla

Kakhi Kavsadze

Raisa Kurkina

Nastasya

Raisa Kurkina

Nikolai Godovikov

Petrukha

Nikolai Godovikov

Tatyana Fedotova

Gulchatai

Tatyana Fedotova

Musa Dudayev

Rakhimov

Musa Dudayev

Nikolai Badyev

Lebedev

Nikolai Badyev

Vladimir Kadochnikov

Semyon

Vladimir Kadochnikov

Galina Luchai

Катерина Матвеевна, жена Сухова

Galina Luchai

Svetlana Slivinskaya

Саида, старшая жена Абдуллы

Svetlana Slivinskaya

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