The White Sun of the Desert | Белое солнце пустыни
The White Sun of the DesertБелое солнце пустыни
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...
Cast
Anatoliy Kuznetsov
Pavel Luspekayev
Spartak Mishulin
Kakhi Kavsadze
Raisa Kurkina
Nikolai Godovikov
Tatyana Fedotova
Musa Dudayev
Nikolai Badyev
Vladimir Kadochnikov
I. Abdulragimov
Yu. Darumov
Galina Dashevskaya
Velta Deglav
D. Gerami
Tatyana Krichevskaya
Yakov Lents
Alla Limenes
Galina Luchai
Aleksandr Massarskiy
Igor Milonov
Andrey Naymushin
Irakli Nijaradze
K. Omarov
Zinaida Rachmatova
Svetlana Slivinskaya
Lidiya Smirnova
Arkadiy Sokolov
Marina Stavitskaya
Tatyana Tkach
Tatyana Kuzmina
Vitaliy Matveev
Andrey Smirnov
Galina Umpelyova
Crew
Vladimir Motyl
Mark Zakharov
Valentin Ezhov
Rustam Ibragimbekov
Valery Kostrin
V. Nesterova
Isaac Schwarts
Eduard Rozovsky
Bella Manevich-Kaplan
