Release Date: 1969-12-14
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...
Rating: 7.2 / 10
Anatoliy Kuznetsov
as Sukhov
Pavel Luspekayev
as Vereshchagin
Spartak Mishulin
as Said
Kakhi Kavsadze
as Abdulla
Raisa Kurkina
as Nastasya
Vladimir Motyl - Director
Valentin Ezhov - Writer
Berta Manevich - Production Design
Isaac Schwarts - Original Music Composer
Eduard Rozovsky - Director of Photography
There's something quietly comedic about the scenario in which returning soldier "Sukhov" (Anatoliy Kuznetsov) finds himself. He's determined just to get home to some peace and quiet with his wife - wh...