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