The White Sun of the Desert
1969The 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...
Acted in
Anatoliy Kuznetsov
as Fyodor Sukhov
Pavel Luspekayev
as Pavel Vereshchagin
Spartak Mishulin
as Said
Kakhi Kavsadze
as Abdulla
Raisa Kurkina
as Nastasya
Nikolai Godovikov
as Petrukha
Tatyana Fedotova
as Gyulchatay
Musa Dudayev
as Rakhimov
Nikolai Badyev
as Lebedev
Vladimir Kadochnikov
as Semyon
I. Abdulragimov
Yu. Darumov
Galina Dashevskaya
as Djamilya
Velta Deglav
as Khafiza
D. Gerami
as Ibragim
Tatyana Krichevskaya
as Dzhamilya
Yakov Lents
as Starik
Alla Limenes
as Zarina
Galina Luchai
as Katerina Matveyevna
Aleksandr Massarskiy
as Bandit
Igor Milonov
as Aristarkh, Bandit
Andrey Naymushin
Irakli Nijaradze
as Starik
K. Omarov
Zinaida Rachmatova
as Zulfiya
Svetlana Slivinskaya
as Saida
Lidiya Smirnova
as Leila
Arkadiy Sokolov
as Bandit
Marina Stavitskaya
as Gyuzel
Tatyana Tkach
as Zukhra
Tatyana Kuzmina
as (uncredited)
Vitaliy Matveev
as Bandit (uncredited)
Andrey Smirnov
as Bandit (uncredited)
Galina Umpelyova
as Dzhamilya (uncredited)