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...
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Anatoliy Kuznetsov as Фёдор Иванович Сухов, красноармеец
Pavel Luspekayev as Павел Артемьевич Верещагин, таможенник
Spartak Mishulin as Саид
Kakhi Kavsadze as Абдулла (озв. Михаил Волков)
Raisa Kurkina as Настасья, жена Верещагина
Nikolai Godovikov as Петруха
Tatyana Fedotova as Гюльчатай (озв. Надежда Румянцева)
Musa Dudayev as Рахимов, красный командир (озв. Игорь Ефимов)
Nikolai Badyev as Лебедев, хранитель музея (озв. Алексей Кожевников)
Vladimir Kadochnikov as Семён, подпоручик
Galina Luchai as Катерина Матвеевна, жена Сухова
Svetlana Slivinskaya as Саида, старшая жена Абдуллы
Velta Deglav as Хафиза, жена Абдуллы
D. Gerami as Ибрагим, бандит
Igor Milonov as Аристарх, бандит
Tatyana Krichevskaya as Джамиля, жена Абдуллы
Alla Limenes as Зарина, жена Абдуллы
Zinaida Rachmatova as Зульфия, жена Абдуллы
Tatyana Tkach as Зухра, жена Абдуллы
Lidiya Smirnova as Лейла, жена Абдуллы
Marina Stavitskaya as Гюзель, жена Абдуллы
Aleksandr Massarskiy as бандит
Arkadiy Sokolov as бандит
Yakov Lents as старик
Irakli Nijaradze as старик
Yu. Darumov as эпизод
I. Abdulragimov as эпизод
Andrey Naymushin as эпизод
K. Omarov as эпизод
Vitaliy Matveyev as бандит (нет в титрах)
Andrey Smirnov as бандит (нет в титрах)
Май-Маевский as старик (нет в титрах)
Рамазанов as старик (нет в титрах)
Феликс Джиоев as эпизод (нет в титрах)
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