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Release date: 12/14/1969
Popularity: 16
Original language: RU
The White Sun of the Desert
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ActionDramaRomanceComedyAdventureWar
Overview
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...
Alternative titles
White Sun of the Desert
Бялото слънце на пустинята
Aavikon laki
El sol blanco del desierto
O Sol Branco do Deserto
Soarele alb al deșertului
Il bianco sole del deserto
Le soleil blanc du désert
El fulgurante sol del desierto
Production companies
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