White Sun of the Desert
Released: December 14, 1969Runtime: 83 minLanguage: RU
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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Anatoliy Kuznetsov
as Fyodor Sukhov
Pavel Luspekayev
as Pavel Vereshchagin
Spartak Mishulin
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Kakhi Kavsadze
as Abdulla
Raisa Kurkina
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Nikolai Godovikov
as Petrukha
Tatyana Fedotova
as Gyulchatay
Musa Dudayev
as Rakhimov
Nikolai Badyev
as Lebedev
Vladimir Kadochnikov
as podporuchik Semyon
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