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...
as Sukhov
as Vereshchagin
as Said
as Abdulla
as Nastasya
as Petrukha
as Gulchatai
as Rakhimov
as Lebedev
as Semyon
as Катерина Матвеевна, жена Сухова
as Саида, старшая жена Абдуллы
as Хафиза, жена Абдуллы
as Ибрагим, бандит
as Аристарх, бандит
as Джамиля, жена Абдуллы
as Зарина, жена Абдуллы
as Зульфия, жена Абдуллы
as Зухра, жена Абдуллы
as Лейла, жена Абдуллы
as Гюзель, жена Абдуллы
as бандит
as бандит
as старик
as старик
as эпизод
as эпизод
as эпизод
as эпизод
as бандит (нет в титрах)
as бандит (нет в титрах)
as старик (нет в титрах)
as старик (нет в титрах)
as эпизод (нет в титрах)
