The Thirteen

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.

• Mikhail RommDirector
• Iosif PrutWriter
• Mikhail RommWriter
• Anatoliy AleksandrovOriginal Music Composer

• Ivan NovoseltsevCommander Ivan Zhuravlyov
• Yelena KuzminaMarya Nikolaevna Zhuravlyova
• Aleksey DolininSoldier Aleksey Timoshkin
• Aleksandr ChistyakovAleksandr Petrovich Postnikov, geologist
• Andrey FaytColonel Skuratov
• Ivan KuznetsovSoldier Yusuf Akchurin
• Petro MasokhaSoldier Petr Sviridenko
• Pavel YudinSoldier Petrov
• Dmitriy ZoltsSoldier Dmitriy Levkoev
• Viktor KulakovSoldier Balandin
• Stepan KrylovSoldier Zhurba
• Aleksandr KepinovSoldier Muradov