The read
It runs a compact 1h 30m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
14 audience votes
Key crew
- Mikhail RommWriter
- Mikhail RommDirector
- Iosif PrutWriter
- Anatoliy AleksandrovOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- 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