Beloe solntse pustyni (1970)

User Rating:

8.3/10   

Director:

Vladimir Motyl

Writers:

Valentin Ezhov (writer)
Rustam Ibragimbekov (writer)

Release Date:

June 1973 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Romance | War | Western

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:

Desert | Harem | Russian Civil War | Asia | Drunk Scene

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:

Actor Pavel Luspekayev played the whole movie on prosthetics for both legs.

Quotes:

Vereschagin: [from the distance] Long time no see, Abdulla!
Abdulla: Long time...
Vereschagin: Still on the road? Still shooting?
Abdulla: Grown old, turned lazy. But remember me as I used to be?
Vereschagin: Yeah, there've been times...
[nodds toward a huge crude-oil gasholder which surface the bandits are covering with oil carried in buckets]
Vereschagin: But what is that your men wanna do, not to set something on fire?
Abdulla: Well, some dude got in and ain't wanna leave.
Vereschagin: [approaches closely to the side of the gasholder and talks through the wall to Sukhov who is hiding inside with surviving Abdulla's wives] Feodor, is Petrukha inside with you?
Sukhov: [from inside, plainly] Petrukha's been killed, Pavel Artem'ich... Stabbed by Abdulla.
[...]

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Na Deribasovskoy khoroshaya pogoda, ili na Brayton Bich opyat idut dozhdi (1992)

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.