
The White Sun of the Desert

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...
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War, Comedy, Western
Actor: Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Pavel Luspekayev, Spartak Mishulin, Kakhi Kavsadze, Raisa Kurkina, Nikolai Godovikov, Tatyana Fedotova, Musa Dudayev, Nikolai Badyev, Vladimir Kadochnikov
Director: Magomed Dakiev, Vladimir Motyl
Country: Soviet Union, Russia
Produced By: Lenfilm, Mosfilm
Runtime: 83
Release: 1969
Rating: 7.206 out of 10
Language: Pусский,
Views: 260
Content Rating:12+
Quality: DVD
Also known as: White Sun Of The Desert, Бялото слънце на пустинята, Aavikon Laki, El Sol Blanco Del Desierto, O Sol Branco Do Deserto, Soarele Alb Al DeșErtului, Il Bianco Sole Del Deserto, Le Soleil Blanc Du DéSert, El Fulgurante Sol Del Desierto, Beloe Solntse Pustyni, Beloe Solntse Pustyni
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