Beloe solntse pustyni (1970)

User Rating:

8.2/10   

Director:

Vladimir Motyl

Writers:

Valentin Ezhov (writer)
Rustam Ibragimbekov (writer)

Release Date:

June 1973 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Romance | War

Plot:

A soldier of the Red Army named Sukhov has been fighting in the Russian Civil War in Russian Asia for many years...

Plot Keywords:

Harem | Desert | Asia | Russian Civil War | Ostern

Cast

Anatoli Kuznetsov	...	Fyodor Sukhov
Spartak Mishulin	...	Sayid
Kakhi Kavsadze	...	Abdulla
Pavel Luspekayev	...	Vereschagin
Raisa Kurkina
Tamara Fedotova
Nikolai Godovikov	...	Petrukha
Musa Dudayev
Nikolai Badyev
V. Kadochnikov
I. Abdulragimov
Tatyana Tkach	...	Head Wife
D. Gerami
Yu. Darumov
V. Deglav

Also Known As:

Белое солнце пустыни (Soviet Union: Russian title)
White Sun of the Desert (International: English title)

Runtime:

85 min

Country:

Soviet Union

Language:

Russian

Color:

Color (Sovcolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-12

Filming Locations:

Bairam-Ali, Turkmenistan

Company:

Lenfilm Studio

Trivia:

Playing wives of Abdullah were only two professional actresses, the rest were a basketball player, a scientist and a shop assistant. As they had to go back to work the wives are played by soldiers in the covered scenes.

Quotes:

Sayid: [Sayid, chasing back the last unkilled of three unidentified bandits who attacked him, over the next dune bumps into the whole pack lead by Abdulla himself]
Abdulla: [sincerely friendly and welcomingly] Why did you kill my men, Sayid? I sent them to tell you not to seek Dzhavdet in Dry Creek - he's not there. Come back to Pedjent! Your father was a friend of my father's! A journey is easier if you meet a good companion traveler!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Priklyucheniya Petrova i Vasechkina, obyknovennye i neveroyatnye (1983) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Vashe blagorodiye, gospozha Razluka

Memories from my past. Call it "red nostalgy" if You want

I's, oh, so wonderful film. I saw it for the first time in my 19, in 1971 in small bioscope in Poland. Soviet film were not very wanted by the teenagers but it was long, dull summer and I haven't nothing better to do. And, what a surprise - film full of humor, action and irony. Song sung by me beloved Bulat Okudzava. After a long, long time I've seen it again in 2000 (You know , Soviet films were almost banned in Polish democracy. A moment of anxiety how it will be work and - ohhh, same feelings, same thrills, same chills. No, not the same, even deeper.