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The White Sun of the Desert

The White Sun of the Desert

1969•1h 23m•7.2/10
ActionDramaRomanceComedyAdventureWar

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7.2/10(170)

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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Production

Lenfilm, Mosfilm

Language

RU

Status

Released

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Cast

Anatoliy Kuznetsov

Anatoliy Kuznetsov

Sukhov

Pavel Luspekayev

Pavel Luspekayev

Vereshchagin

Spartak Mishulin

Spartak Mishulin

Said

Kakhi Kavsadze

Kakhi Kavsadze

Abdulla

Raisa Kurkina

Raisa Kurkina

Nastasya

Nikolai Godovikov

Nikolai Godovikov

Petrukha

Tatyana Fedotova

Tatyana Fedotova

Gulchatai

Musa Dudayev

Musa Dudayev

Rakhimov

Nikolai Badyev

Nikolai Badyev

Lebedev

Vladimir Kadochnikov

Vladimir Kadochnikov

Semyon

Galina Luchai

Катерина Матвеевна, жена Сухова

Svetlana Slivinskaya

Саида, старшая жена Абдуллы

Velta Deglav

Хафиза, жена Абдуллы

D. Gerami

Ибрагим, бандит

Igor Milonov

Igor Milonov

Аристарх, бандит

Tatyana Krichevskaya

Джамиля, жена Абдуллы

Alla Limenes

Зарина, жена Абдуллы

Zinaida Rachmatova

Zinaida Rachmatova

Зульфия, жена Абдуллы

Tatyana Tkach

Tatyana Tkach

Зухра, жена Абдуллы

Marina Stavitskaya

Гюзель, жена Абдуллы

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