The White Sun of the Desert

The White Sun of the Desert

1969
1h 23m
7.2

7.2/10

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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...

Status: Released

Language: RU

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Production Information

Production Companies
Lenfilm Mosfilm
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Spoken Languages
Russian

Quick Facts

Original Title Белое солнце пустыни
Release Date December 14, 1969
Status Released
Language RU
IMDb ID tt0066565

Cast

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
Galina Luchai

Катерина Матвеевна, жена Сухова

Svetlana Slivinskaya
Svetlana Slivinskaya

Саида, старшая жена Абдуллы

Key Crew

Vladimir Motyl
Director
Valentin Ezhov
Writer
Rustam Ibragimbekov
Writer
Yuriy Khokhlov
Executive Producer