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The White Sun of the Desert

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7.2/10 • 141

1969-12-141h 23m

ActionDramaRomanceComedyAdventureWar

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...

Directors
Vladimir Motyl
Writters
Mark Zakharov, Valentin Ezhov
Editors
Mark Zakharov, Valentin Ezhov, V. Nesterova

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  1. Anatoliy Kuznetsov

    Anatoliy Kuznetsov

    Fyodor Sukhov

  2. Pavel Luspekayev

    Pavel Luspekayev

    Pavel Vereshchagin

  3. Spartak Mishulin

    Spartak Mishulin

    Said

  4. Kakhi Kavsadze

    Kakhi Kavsadze

    Abdulla

  5. Raisa Kurkina

    Raisa Kurkina

    Nastasya

  6. Nikolai Godovikov

    Nikolai Godovikov

    Petrukha

  7. Tatyana Fedotova

    Tatyana Fedotova

    Gyulchatay

  8. Musa Dudayev

    Musa Dudayev

    Rakhimov

  9. Nikolai Badyev

    Nikolai Badyev

    Lebedev

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Status
Released
Original Language
Russian
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Keywords
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