The White Sun of the Desert (1969)

ALL 12/14/1969 (ru) Action, Drama, Romance, Comedy, Adventure, War 83 Min
  • Release
    12/14/1969
  • Production
    Lenfilm, Mosfilm
  • Rotten tomato
    72%
  • Original title
    Белое солнце пустыни
  • Original language
    ru
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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...

  1. Vladimir Motyl

    Director

  2. Story

  3. V. Nesterova

    Editor

  4. Producer



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The White Sun of the Desert (1969) 83 Min

ALL 12/14/1969 (ru)
Action, Drama, Romance, Comedy, Adventure, War
  • Release 12/14/1969
  • Production
    Lenfilm, Mosfilm
  • Original title Белое солнце пустыни
  • ru
  • Revenue0.00

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...

  1. Vladimir Motyl

    Director

  2. Story

  3. V. Nesterova

    Editor

  4. Producer