The film tells about a band of demobilized Red Army men and two civilians who cross a Middle Asian desert. They are forced to do battle with superior forces of Basmachi rebels for the dry draw-well.
Ivan Novoseltsev
Commander Ivan Zhuravlyov
Yelena Kuzmina
Marya Nikolaevna Zhuravlyova
Aleksey Dolinin
Soldier Aleksey Timoshkin
Aleksandr Chistyakov
Aleksandr Petrovich Postnikov, geologist
Andrey Fayt
Colonel Skuratov
Ivan Kuznetsov
Soldier Yusuf Akchurin
Petro Masokha
Soldier Petr Sviridenko
Pavel Yudin
Soldier Petrov
Dmitriy Zolts
Soldier Dmitriy Levkoev
Viktor Kulakov
Soldier Balandin
Stepan Krylov
Soldier Zhurba
Aleksandr Kepinov
Soldier Muradov
Nikolay Kryuchkov
Soldier Nikolai Gusiev
Aga-Rza Kuliyev
Soldier Kuliev
Aleksandr Chekayevsky
(uncredited)
Mikhail Romm
Director, Writer
Iosif Prut
Writer
Nov 5, 2021
Mar 20, 2025
Dec 14, 1969
Oct 26, 2023
Nov 9, 1949
Apr 27, 1961
May 1, 1966
Apr 25, 1995
Mosfilm
SU
Soviet Union
Pусский
