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...
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"White Sun of the Desert" (Beloye solntse pustyni). It is the Soviet film, easterly "western". In the movie narrate about adventures of Red Army man Fyodor Sukhov. He rescues from gangster Abdullah its harem in days of civil war. One of the most known films in the history of the Soviet cinema. Many critics and spectators name this film as "cult movie". Phrases of heroes of a film have steadily entered into colloquial Russian. Director: Vladimir Motyl Authors of the scenario: Valentin Yezhov, Rustam Ibragimbekov, Mark Zakharov In roles: Anatoly Kuznetsov, Pavel Luspekaev, Spartak Mishulin, Kakhi Kavsadze, Nikolay Godovikov Director of photography: Edward Rozovsky Composer: Isaak Schwarz Movie studio: "Mosfilm"
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- Director
- Vladimir Motyl
- Starring
- Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Pavel Luspekayev, Spartak Mishulin, Kakhi Kavsadze, Raisa Kurkina, Nikolai Godovikov, Tatyana Fedotova, Musa Dudayev
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