The White Sun of the Desert
Белое солнце пустыни
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...
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Cast
Yakov Lents
as старик
Igor Milonov
as Аристарх, бандит
Pavel Luspekayev
as Vereshchagin
Tatyana Tkach
as Зухра, жена Абдуллы
Irakli Nijaradze
as старик
Anatoliy Kuznetsov
as Sukhov
Tatyana Fedotova
as Gulchatai
Zinaida Rachmatova
as Зульфия, жена Абдуллы
Andrey Smirnov
as бандит (нет в титрах)
Spartak Mishulin
as Said
Kakhi Kavsadze
as Abdulla
Raisa Kurkina
as Nastasya
Vitaliy Matveyev
as бандит (нет в титрах)
Nikolai Godovikov
as Petrukha
Vladimir Kadochnikov
as Semyon
Musa Dudayev
as Rakhimov
Aleksandr Massarskiy
as бандит
Lidiya Smirnova
as Лейла, жена Абдуллы
Crew
Valentin Ezhov
Writer
Ernest Yasan
Assistant Director
Berta Manevich
Production Design
Rustam Ibragimbekov
Writer
Igor Klebanov
Assistant Camera
Pyotr Timofeyev
Stunts
Vladimir Motyl
Director
Isaac Schwarts
Original Music Composer
Eduard Rozovsky
Director of Photography
Valery Kostrin
Production Design
Mark Zakharov
Additional Writing
Bulat Okudzhava
Lyricist
Magomed Dakiev
Second Unit Director