The setting is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (today's Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in Russian Asia for a number of years. After being hospitalised and then demobbed, he sets off home to join his wife, only to be caught up in a desert fight between a Red Army cavalry unit and Basmachi guerrillas. The cavalry unit commander, Rahimov, "convinces" Sukhov to help, temporarily, with the protection of abandoned women of the Basmachi guerrilla leader Abdullah's harem. Leaving a young Red Army soldier, Petrukha, to assist Sukhov with the task, Rahimov and his cavalry unit set out to pursue fleeing Abdullah.Sukhov and women from Abdullah's harem return to a nearby shore town. Soon, looking for a seaway across the border, Abdullah and his gang come to the same town...
Sukhov
Vereshchagin
Said
Abdulla
Nastasya
Petrukha
Gulchatai
04 Sep 2009
A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. The Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every trick of seduction on her husband's loyal disciple, whom she believes was the person responsible for Tolstoy signing a new will that leaves his work and property to the Russian people.
10 May 2024
Rakhimov
Lebedev
Semyon
Катерина Матвеевна, жена Сухова
Саида, старшая жена Абдуллы
Хафиза, жена Абдуллы
Ибрагим, бандит
Аристарх, бандит
Джамиля, жена Абдуллы
Зарина, жена Абдуллы
Зульфия, жена Абдуллы
Зухра, жена Абдуллы
Лейла, жена Абдуллы
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