The White Sun of the Desert

Overview

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...

Details

Status

Released

Release date

December 14, 1969

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Soviet Union

Production

Mosfilm,Lenfilm

Cast

Anatoliy Kuznetsov,Pavel Luspekayev,Spartak Mishulin,Kakhi Kavsadze,Raisa Kurkina,Nikolai Godovikov,Tatyana Fedotova,Musa Dudayev,Nikolai Badyev,Vladimir Kadochnikovand 23 more

Director

Vladimir Motyl

Writer

Valentin Ezhov,Rustam Ibragimbekov,Bulat Okudzhava,Lyudmila Shmuglyakova,V. Spitsyn

Producer

Yuriy Khokhlov

Cinematography

Eduard Rozovsky

Music

Isaac Schwarts

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0066565