Overview
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.
Cast
- Ivan Novoseltsev as Commander Ivan Zhuravlyov
- Yelena Kuzmina as Marya Nikolaevna Zhuravlyova
- Aleksey Dolinin as Soldier Aleksey Timoshkin
- Aleksandr Chistyakov as Aleksandr Petrovich Postnikov, geologist
- Andrey Fayt as Colonel Skuratov
- Ivan Kuznetsov as Soldier Yusuf Akchurin
- Petro Masokha as Soldier Petr Sviridenko
- Pavel Yudin as Soldier Petrov
- Dmitriy Zolts as Soldier Dmitriy Levkoev
- Viktor Kulakov as Soldier Balandin