The White Sun of the Desert (1969)
ActionDramaRomanceComedyAdventureWar
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...
Director: Vladimir Motyl
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Anatoliy Kuznetsov as Sukhov |
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Pavel Luspekayev as Vereshchagin |
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Spartak Mishulin as Said |
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Kakhi Kavsadze as Abdulla |
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Raisa Kurkina as Nastasya |
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Nikolai Godovikov as Petrukha |
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Tatyana Fedotova as Gulchatai |
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Musa Dudayev as Rakhimov |
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Nikolai Badyev as Lebedev |
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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 |
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Velta Deglav as Хафиза, жена Абдуллы |
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D. Gerami as Ибрагим, бандит |
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Igor Milonov as Аристарх, бандит |
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Tatyana Krichevskaya as Джамиля, жена Абдуллы |
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Alla Limenes as Зарина, жена Абдуллы |
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Zinaida Rachmatova as Зульфия, жена Абдуллы |
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Tatyana Tkach as Зухра, жена Абдуллы |
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Marina Stavitskaya as Гюзель, жена Абдуллы |
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Aleksandr Massarskiy as бандит |
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Arkadiy Sokolov as бандит |
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Yakov Lents as старик |
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Irakli Nijaradze as старик |
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Yu. Darumov as эпизод |
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I. Abdulragimov as эпизод |
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Andrey Naymushin as эпизод |
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K. Omarov as эпизод |
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Vitaliy Matveyev as бандит (нет в титрах) |
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Andrey Smirnov as бандит (нет в титрах) |
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Май-Маевский as старик (нет в титрах) |
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Рамазанов as старик (нет в титрах) |
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Феликс Джиоев as эпизод (нет в титрах) |
| Directing | Vladimir Motyl | Director |
| Writing | Valentin Ezhov | Writer |
| Art | Berta Manevich | Production Design |
| Camera | Eduard Rozovsky | Director of Photography |
| Editing | V. Nesterova | Editor |
| Sound | Isaac Schwarts | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Valery Kostrin | Production Design |
| Writing | Rustam Ibragimbekov | Writer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Vadim Lindenbaum | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Diana Mane | Costume Design |
| Art | A. Timofeyev | Set Decoration |
| Camera | Mikhail Avrutin | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Viktor Tupitsyn | Camera Operator |
| Crew | Mark Zakharov | Additional Writing |
| Writing | Bulat Okudzhava | Lyricist |
| Writing | Lyudmila Shmuglyakova | Script Editor |
| Writing | V. Spitsyn | Script Editor |
| Camera | Igor Klebanov | Assistant Camera |
| Crew | Vladimir Tokmenin | Stunts |
| Crew | Pyotr Timofeyev | Stunts |
| Sound | Leo Korkhin | Conductor |
| Sound | Georgiy Salye | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Mikhail Lazarev | Sound Recordist |
| Costume & Make-Up | A. Kheyfits | Key Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Galina Vasilyeva | Key Makeup Artist |
| Directing | B. Dovlatov | Second Unit Director |
| Directing | Magomed Dakiev | Second Unit Director |
| Directing | N. Konyushev | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Ernest Yasan | Assistant Director |
| Visual Effects | Georgiy Vargin | Visual Effects Camera |
| Visual Effects | Vladimir Solovyov | Visual Effects Designer |
| Production | Yuriy Khokhlov | Executive Producer |
| Camera | G. Murashov | Assistant Camera |
