The White Sun of the Desert, made in 1970 by Vladimir Motyl, is a film that is frankly valued by the public, at least based on the IMDB ratings (it is curious how most Soviet films appear with excellent ratings on IMDB, even those that hardly would deserve it, a phenomenon of Russian nostalgia probably, coupled with a huge lack of knowledge abroad of these works, despite the fact that they are almost all available for free on YouTube, although not always subtitled), but it lacks predicates to justify it. Apart from the exoticism of having been filmed in Turkmenistan and Dagestan, on the shores of the Caspian Sea, with the cinematography taking advantage of these beautiful desert landscapes, the plot is worthy of a spaghetti western and not even the best.
Review of White Sun of the Desert
