Dec 14, 1969
83 min
Full-HD

The White Sun of the Desert (1969)

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...

Category

Action Drama Romance Comedy Adventure War

Country

Soviet Union

Companies

Lenfilm Mosfilm

Anatoliy Kuznetsov

Fyodor Sukhov

Pavel Luspekayev

Pavel Vereshchagin

Spartak Mishulin

Said

Kakhi Kavsadze

Abdulla

Raisa Kurkina

Nastasya

Nikolai Godovikov

Petrukha

Tatyana Fedotova

Gyulchatay

Musa Dudayev

Rakhimov

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