BELOE SOLNZE
PUSTYNI / THE WHITE SUN OF THE DESERT
DIRECTOR: VLADIMIR MOTYL
USSR 1969
In the late 1960s a spate of Soviet “easterns” modelled on
the Hollywood western were shot in “exotic” Central Asian
settings, with plots playing in the era of civil war and the instalment
of Soviet control. Motyl’s BELOE SOLNZE PUSTYNI, which attained
cult status and attracted an audience of 34.5 million, tells the story
of demobilized Red Army soldier Fedor Suchov’s trek through an unending
Central Asian desert as he makes his way home to a remote Russian village.
En route he rescues Sain, who has been buried up to his head in sand by
Bai Abdullah. Sain becomes his most loyal comrade in the fight against
the pillaging Bai gang and its White Russian accomplices.
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