The White Sun of the Desert
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The White Sun of the Desert

★ 7.2/10 TMDB 1969-12-14 83 min

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...

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Anatoliy Kuznetsov
Anatoliy Kuznetsov
Sukhov
Pavel Luspekayev
Pavel Luspekayev
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
Gulchatai
Musa Dudayev
Musa Dudayev
Rakhimov
Nikolai Badyev
Nikolai Badyev
Lebedev
Vladimir Kadochnikov
Vladimir Kadochnikov
Semyon
Galina Luchai
Катерина Матвеевна, жена Сухова
Svetlana Slivinskaya
Саида, старшая жена Абдуллы
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