
1937 · Mikhail Romm · 90 min
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 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 SviridenkoPavel YudinSoldier PetrovDmitriy ZoltsSoldier Dmitriy Levkoev
Viktor KulakovSoldier Balandin
Stepan KrylovSoldier ZhurbaAleksandr KepinovSoldier Muradov
Nikolay KryuchkovSoldier Nikolai Gusiev
Aga-Rza KuliyevSoldier Kuliev
Aleksandr Chekayevsky(uncredited)