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.
2.6 / 5
Ivan Novoseltsev
Commander Ivan Zhuravlyov (as I. Novoseltsev)
Yelena Kuzmina
Marya Nikolaevna Zhuravlyova (as E. Kuzmina)
Aleksey Dolinin
Soldier Aleksey Timoshkin (as A. Dolinin)
Aleksandr Chistyakov
Aleksandr Petrovich Postnikov, geologist (as A. Chistyakov)
Andrey Fayt
Colonel Skuratov (as A. Fayt)
Ivan Kuznetsov
Soldier Yusuf Akchurin (as I. Kuznetsov)
Petro Masokha
Soldier Petr Sviridenko (as P. Masokha)
Pavel Yudin
Soldier Petrov (as P. Yudin)
Dmitriy Zolts
Soldier Dmitriy Levkoev (as D. Zolts)
Viktor Kulakov
Soldier Balandin (as V. Kulakov)
Stepan Krylov
Soldier Zhurba (as S. Krylov)
Aleksandr Kepinov
Soldier Muradov (as A. Kepinov)
Nikolay Kryuchkov
Soldier Nikolai Gusiev (as N. Kryuchkov)
Agharza Guliyev
Soldier Kuliev (as A. Kuliev)
Mikhail Romm
Writer
Vladimir Egorov
Production Design
Director
Iosif Prut
Mikhail Karyakin
Tatyana Likhachyova
Editor
Andrey Nikulin
Boris Volchek
Director of Photography
Anatoliy Aleksandrov
Original Music Composer
Lev Indenbom
Production Director
K. Eggers
Assistant Director
Valentina Kuznetsova
