As soon as the bombshell topic that is Soviet cinema drops onto the laps of westerners, most have a knee-jerk reaction of cringing their faces, upturning their noses and blurting out that films dishing out thickly-clad, pro-Stalinist red propaganda is not their priority viewing.
So, to remedy your staunch-anti-soviet act, I've decided to unleash a series of articles upon your unbewildering arses to prove that Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergei Eisenstein are not the only slices of Russian cinema worth chewing on.
White Sun Of The Desert
A cult Borscht Western that chucks the prototype reluctant gunslinging hero onto the coast of the Caspian Sea and opens the history books on the Russian Civil War pages.
Plot:
Suchov, the demobbed red army soldier is trudging his way home when he earns himself the duty of protecting a harem of wives from Black Abdullah and his band of turbaned horse-trodders. He gets himself into a pickle of a situation and is cornered into a showdown lead-guzzling action shoot out with the bandits.
The fastest gun in the East if you will.
Why I love it: It's a low budget cult flick that checks every box....It churns out action scenes that aren't overly stylised a la Hollywood, it has an engrossing hats-off-to-history plot, it doesn't bow down to sappy endings and its goddarn mother-effin' funny. And it's ritually watched by cosmonauts before every space launched. Case closed.
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