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The White Sun of the Desert

7.255 average rating
7.255
Russian / 83 MIN. / 1969

The Genres

The Synopsis

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...

The Cast

Anatoliy KuznetsovPavel LuspekayevSpartak MishulinKakhi KavsadzeRaisa KurkinaNikolai GodovikovTatyana FedotovaMusa DudayevNikolai BadyevVladimir KadochnikovGalina LuchaiSvetlana SlivinskayaVelta DeglavD. GeramiIgor MilonovTatyana KrichevskayaAlla LimenesZinaida RachmatovaTatyana TkachLidiya SmirnovaMarina StavitskayaAleksandr MassarskiyArkadiy SokolovYakov LentsIrakli NijaradzeYu. DarumovI. AbdulragimovAndrey NaymushinK. OmarovVitaliy MatveyevAndrey SmirnovМай-МаевскийРамазановФеликс Джиоев

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