
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.

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
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