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
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
Soldier Zhurba
Soldier Muradov
Soldier Nikolai Gusiev
Soldier Kuliev
