The White Sun of the Desert (1969)
The White Sun of the Desert (1969)
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Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Anatoliy Kuznetsov
Fyodor Sukhov
Pavel Luspekayev
Pavel Vereshchagin
Spartak Mishulin
Sayid
Kakhi Kavsadze
Abdulla
Raisa Kurkina
Nastasya, zhena Vereshchagina
Nikolai Godovikov
Petrukha
Tatyana Fedotova
Gyulchatay
Musa Dudayev
Rakhimov
Nikolai Badyev
Lebedev
Vladimir Kadochnikov
Podporuchik Semyon
Vladimir Motyl
Director
Galina Dashevskaya
Djamilya
Valentin Ezhov
Writer
Velta Deglav
Khafiza
Rustam Ibragimbekov
Writer
Mark Zakharov
Writer
D. Gerami
Ibragim
Tatyana Krichevskaya
Dzhamilya
Isaac Schwarts
Composer
Eduard Rozovsky
Cinematographer
Yakov Lents
Starik
V. Nesterova
Editor
Alla Limenes
Zarina
Valery Kostrin
ProductionDesigner
Galina Luchai
Katerina Matveyevna
Bella Manevich-Kaplan
ProductionDesigner
Aleksandr Massarskiy
Bandit
Igor Milonov
Aristarkh, Bandit
Irakli Nijaradze
Starik
Zinaida Rachmatova
Zulfiya
Svetlana Slivinskaya
Saida
Lidiya Smirnova
Leila
Arkadiy Sokolov
Bandit
Marina Stavitskaya
Gyuzel
Tatyana Tkach
Zukhra
Tatyana Kuzmina
(uncredited)
Vitaliy Matveev
Bandit (uncredited)
Andrey Smirnov
Bandit (uncredited)
Galina Umpelyova
Dzhamilya (uncredited)
Magomed Dakiev
First Assistant Director
Andrey Naymushin
Yu. Darumov
I. Abdulragimov
K. Omarov
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 14, 1969
Original NameБелое солнце пустыни
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 23m
Genres
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Wiki.
White Sun of the Desert (Russian: Белое солнце пустыни, romanized: Beloye solntse pustyni) is a 1970 Soviet Ostern film.Its blend of action, comedy, music and drama, as well as memorable quotes, made it highly successful at the Russian box-office, and it retains high domestic approval. Its main theme song, "Your Noble Highness Lady Fortune" (Ваше благородие, госпожа Удача, music: Isaac Schwartz, lyrics: Bulat Okudzhava, performed by Pavel Luspekayev) became a hit. The film is watched by Russian cosmonauts before most space launches as a good luck ritual.
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