

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.
Director: Mikhail Romm

Commander Ivan Zhuravlyov

Marya Nikolaevna Zhuravlyova

Soldier Aleksey Timoshkin

Aleksandr Petrovich Postnikov, geologist

Colonel Skuratov

Soldier Yusuf Akchurin
Soldier Petr Sviridenko
Soldier Petrov
Soldier Dmitriy Levkoev

Soldier Balandin