π 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...
π Languages Available:
Russian
π Date Released:
1969-12-14
β Running Time:
83 mins
β Vote Average:
7.2
Beloved Cast
Fyodor Sukhov
Anatoliy Kuznetsov
Pavel Vereshchagin
Pavel Luspekayev
Said
Spartak Mishulin
Abdulla
Kakhi Kavsadze
Nastasya
Raisa Kurkina
Petrukha
Nikolai Godovikov
Gyulchatay
Tatyana Fedotova
Rakhimov
Musa Dudayev
Lebedev
Nikolai Badyev
Semyon
Vladimir Kadochnikov
I. Abdulragimov
Yu. Darumov
Djamilya
Galina Dashevskaya
Khafiza
Velta Deglav
Ibragim
D. Gerami
Dzhamilya
Tatyana Krichevskaya
Starik
Yakov Lents
Zarina
Alla Limenes
Katerina Matveyevna
Galina Luchai
Bandit
Aleksandr Massarskiy
Aristarkh, Bandit
Igor Milonov
Andrey Naymushin
Starik
Irakli Nijaradze
K. Omarov
Zulfiya
Zinaida Rachmatova
Saida
Svetlana Slivinskaya
Leila
Lidiya Smirnova
Bandit
Arkadiy Sokolov
Gyuzel
Marina Stavitskaya
Zukhra
Tatyana Tkach
(uncredited)
Tatyana Kuzmina
Bandit (uncredited)
Vitaliy Matveyev
Bandit (uncredited)
Andrey Smirnov
Dzhamilya (uncredited)
Galina Umpelyova