The White Sun of the Desert

The White Sun of the Desert (1969)


  • Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Comedy, Adventure, War
  • Release Date: 1969-12-14
  • User Rating: 7.2/10 from 142 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 23min
  • Language: Pусский
  • Production Company: Lenfilm
  • Production Country: Soviet Union
  • Director: Vladimir Motyl
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Summary

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

    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

    as

  • Yu. Darumov

    as

  • 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

    as

  • Irakli Nijaradze

    as Starik

  • K. Omarov

    as

  • 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)
Directing Vladimir Motyl Director
Writing Mark Zakharov Writer
Writing Valentin Ezhov Writer
Art Berta Manevich Production Design
Directing Magomed Dakiev First Assistant Director
Writing Rustam Ibragimbekov Screenplay
Camera Eduard Rozovsky Director of Photography
Editing V. Nesterova Editor
Sound Isaac Schwarts Original Music Composer
Art Valery Kostrin Production Design

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