The White Sun of the Desert

The White Sun of the Desert

1969
1h 23min

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 White Sun of the Desert

Storyline

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
Anatoliy Kuznetsov
Fyodor Sukhov
Pavel Luspekayev
Pavel Luspekayev
Pavel Vereshchagin
Spartak Mishulin
Spartak Mishulin
Said
Kakhi Kavsadze
Kakhi Kavsadze
Abdulla
Raisa Kurkina
Raisa Kurkina
Nastasya
Nikolai Godovikov
Nikolai Godovikov
Petrukha
Tatyana Fedotova
Tatyana Fedotova
Gyulchatay
Musa Dudayev
Musa Dudayev
Rakhimov
Nikolai Badyev
Lebedev
Vladimir Kadochnikov
Vladimir Kadochnikov
Semyon
I. Abdulragimov
Acting
Yu. Darumov
Acting
Galina Dashevskaya
Djamilya
Velta Deglav
Khafiza
D. Gerami
Ibragim
Tatyana Krichevskaya
Dzhamilya
Yakov Lents
Yakov Lents
Starik
Alla Limenes
Zarina
Galina Luchai
Katerina Matveyevna
Aleksandr Massarskiy
Aleksandr Massarskiy
Bandit
Igor Milonov
Aristarkh, Bandit
Andrey Naymushin
Acting
Irakli Nijaradze
Starik
K. Omarov
Acting
Zinaida Rachmatova
Zinaida Rachmatova
Zulfiya
Svetlana Slivinskaya
Saida
Lidiya Smirnova
Lidiya Smirnova
Leila
Arkadiy Sokolov
Bandit
Marina Stavitskaya
Gyuzel
Tatyana Tkach
Tatyana Tkach
Zukhra
Tatyana Kuzmina
(uncredited)
Vitaliy Matveyev
Vitaliy Matveyev
Bandit (uncredited)
Andrey Smirnov
Andrey Smirnov
Bandit (uncredited)
Galina Umpelyova
Galina Umpelyova
Dzhamilya (uncredited)
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