Watch The White Sun of the Desert (1970) Online
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- RUNTIME: 1h 23m
- COUNTRIES: Russia
- Subtitles: Pусский
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... Read More
Watch The White Sun of the Desert online. Featuring Anatoliy Kuznetsov and Spartak Mishulin, The White Sun of the Desert is classified as Action and Drama genre movie with an average rating across the web of 7.4. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in Russia and was released on 1970. The White Sun of the Desert was directed by Yakov Bazelyan,Vladimir Motyl,Mark Zakharov. Read Less