90 minutes
5/8/1937
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
as Commander Ivan Zhuravlyov (as I. Novoseltsev)
Yelena Kuzmina
as Marya Nikolaevna Zhuravlyova (as E. Kuzmina)
Aleksey Dolinin
as Soldier Aleksey Timoshkin (as A. Dolinin)
Aleksandr Chistyakov
as Aleksandr Petrovich Postnikov, geologist (as A. Chistyakov)
Andrey Fayt
as Colonel Skuratov (as A. Fayt)
Ivan Kuznetsov
as Soldier Yusuf Akchurin (as I. Kuznetsov)
Petro Masokha
as Soldier Petr Sviridenko (as P. Masokha)
Pavel Yudin
as Soldier Petrov (as P. Yudin)
Dmitriy Zolts
as Soldier Dmitriy Levkoev (as D. Zolts)
Viktor Kulakov
as Soldier Balandin (as V. Kulakov)
Stepan Krylov
as Soldier Zhurba (as S. Krylov)
Aleksandr Kepinov
as Soldier Muradov (as A. Kepinov)
Nikolay Kryuchkov
as Soldier Nikolai Gusiev (as N. Kryuchkov)
Agharza Guliyev
as Soldier Kuliev (as A. Kuliev)