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
Sukhov
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Raisa Kurkina
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Nikolai Godovikov
Petrukha
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Galina Luchai
Катерина Матвеевна, жена Сухова
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Svetlana Slivinskaya
Саида, старшая жена Абдуллы
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Vladimir Motyl Director · Rustam Ibragimbekov Writer Valentin Ezhov Writer
First release December 14, 1969 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Production Mosfilm
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Lenfilm
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Mosfilm
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Russia · Russia
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Original title
Белое солнце пустыни
Original language
Russian
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Russian
Release dates
Russia · December 14, 1969
Limited theatrical · Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR
No release date listed for United States.
Russia
March 30, 1970 · Theatrical · Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
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