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.
Ivan Novoseltsev
Commander Ivan Zhuravlyov
Yelena Kuzmina
Marya Nikolaevna Zhuravlyova
Aleksey Dolinin
Soldier Aleksey Timoshkin
Aleksandr Chistyakov
Aleksandr Petrovich Postnikov, geologist
Andrey Fayt
Colonel Skuratov
Ivan Kuznetsov
Soldier Yusuf Akchurin
Petro Masokha
Soldier Petr Sviridenko
Pavel Yudin
Soldier Petrov
