The White Sun of the Desert
movie
Released December 14, 1969
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...
Cast
Anatoliy Kuznetsov
as
Sukhov
Pavel Luspekayev
as
Vereshchagin
Spartak Mishulin
as
Said
Kakhi Kavsadze
as
Abdulla
Raisa Kurkina
as
Nastasya
Nikolai Godovikov
as
Petrukha
Tatyana Fedotova
as
Gulchatai
Musa Dudayev
as
Rakhimov
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Nikolai Badyev
as
Lebedev
Vladimir Kadochnikov
as
Semyon
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Galina Luchai
as
Катерина Матвеевна, жена Сухова
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Svetlana Slivinskaya
as
Саида, старшая жена Абдуллы
Crew
Valentin Ezhov
as
Writer
Vladimir Motyl
as
Director
Berta Manevich
as
Production Design
Eduard Rozovsky
as
Director of Photography
Isaac Schwarts
as
Original Music Composer
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V. Nesterova
as
Editor
Valery Kostrin
as
Production Design
Rustam Ibragimbekov
as
Writer
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Vadim Lindenbaum
as
Costume Design
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Diana Mane
as
Costume Design
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A. Timofeyev
as
Set Decoration
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Mikhail Avrutin
as
Camera Operator