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The White Sun of the Desert
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The White Sun of the Desert

1969-12-14 · 83 min · ★ 7.2

Action · Drama · Adventure · War

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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Directors
Vladimir Motyl
Production companies
Lenfilm, Mosfilm
Countries
Soviet Union
Status
Released

Top Cast

Anatoliy KuznetsovAnatoliy KuznetsovSukhov
Pavel LuspekayevPavel LuspekayevVereshchagin
Spartak MishulinSpartak MishulinSaid
Kakhi KavsadzeKakhi KavsadzeAbdulla
Raisa KurkinaRaisa KurkinaNastasya
Nikolai GodovikovNikolai GodovikovPetrukha
Tatyana FedotovaTatyana FedotovaGulchatai
Musa DudayevMusa DudayevRakhimov
Nikolai BadyevNikolai BadyevLebedev
Vladimir KadochnikovVladimir KadochnikovSemyon
Galina LuchaiКатерина Матвеевна, жена Сухова
Svetlana SlivinskayaСаида, старшая жена Абдуллы
Velta DeglavХафиза, жена Абдуллы
D. GeramiИбрагим, бандит
Igor MilonovIgor MilonovАристарх, бандит
Tatyana KrichevskayaДжамиля, жена Абдуллы
Alla LimenesЗарина, жена Абдуллы
Zinaida RachmatovaZinaida RachmatovaЗульфия, жена Абдуллы
Tatyana TkachTatyana TkachЗухра, жена Абдуллы
Marina StavitskayaГюзель, жена Абдуллы

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