The White Sun of the Desert
The setting is the east coast of the Caspian Sea (today's Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in Russian Asia for quite a few years. After demobbed and getting hospitalised, he lays off home to join his wife, only to be captured up in a desert fight between Basmachi guerrillas and a Red Army cavalry unit. The cavalry unit commander, Rahimov,"convinces" Sukhov to help, temporarily, with the protection of abandoned women of this Basmachi guerrilla leader Abdullah's harem. Leaving a Red Army soldier, Petrukha, to assist Sukhov with all the undertaking, Rahimov and his cavalry unit lay out to pursue tripping Abdullah.Sukhov and women from Abdullah's harem return to your nearby coast town. So on, searching to get a seaway across the boundary, Abdullah and his group come to the very same town...
Released: 1970-03-30