White Sun Of The Desert

Original vintage Soviet movie poster for the popular classic action adventure film set in the Russian Civil War about a soldier Sukhov (Anatoly Kuznetsov) who is forced to guard a harem belonging to the rebel leader Abdulla (Kakhi Kavsadze): Белое Солнце Пустыни / White Sun of the Desert directed by Vladimir Motyl, written by Valentin Yezhov and Rustam Ibragimbekov, music composed by Isaak Shvarts with lyrics by Bulat Okudzhava and starring Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Spartak Mishulin and Kakhi Kavsadze. Colourful design featuring a man's head emerging from the desert sand below with a soldier wearing white with a red star on his cap, shooting a rifle gun behind him as he races by on a horse across the desert above, the title in the centre in stylised white letters. This film achieved box office success with a hit theme song and memorable quotes still used as popular sayings. Before launching into space this film is watched by cosmonauts as a good luck ritual, along with other traditions that include signing their hotel door and planting a tree along Cosmonaut Alley (the first one planted by Yuri Gagarin). Good condition, restored minor tears and pinholes, minor loss on bottom margin, backed on linen.