Vladimir Motyl
Director
The White Sun of the Desert (1969)
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...72%
Rustam Ibragimbekov
Screenplay
Cast
Anatoliy Kuznetsov
Fyodor Sukhov
Pavel Luspekayev
Pavel Vereshchagin
Spartak Mishulin
Said
Kakhi Kavsadze
Abdulla
Raisa Kurkina
Nastasya
Nikolai Godovikov
Petrukha
Tatyana Fedotova
Gyulchatay
Musa Dudayev
Rakhimov
Nikolai Badyev
Lebedev
Vladimir Kadochnikov
Semyon
I. Abdulragimov
Yu. Darumov
Anatoliy Kuznetsov
Fyodor Sukhov
Pavel Luspekayev
Pavel Vereshchagin
Spartak Mishulin
Said
Kakhi Kavsadze
Abdulla
Raisa Kurkina
Nastasya
Nikolai Godovikov
Petrukha
Tatyana Fedotova
Gyulchatay
Musa Dudayev
Rakhimov
Nikolai Badyev
Lebedev
Vladimir Kadochnikov
Semyon
I. Abdulragimov
Yu. Darumov
Extra
Release Date
December 14, 1969Original Language
RussianBudget
$0.00Production Company
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