The White Sun of the Desert (1969)
Directed by Vladimir Motyl · 83 min · Action, Drama, Adventure, War
28.6 TOPICAL score · #3,677 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →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...
The White Sun of the Desert (1969, directed by Vladimir Motyl) has a TOPICAL score of 28.6 - ranked 3,677 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on historical impact and audience, and lowest on awards. Audiences: TMDB 7.2/10 (190 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 41 languages.
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- AudienceTMDB 7.2/10 (190 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 0 nominations
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 41 languages
- Still read11,859 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Anatoly Kuznetsov, Pavel Luspekayev, Spartak Mishulin, Kakhi Kavsadze