During the retreat from Baku in 1920, prisoners of the White Army counterintelligence are dropped off on an uninhabited island in the Caspian Sea, where they are left to die of hunger and thirst. Four of them—the Bolsheviks Miller, Zanoza, Nesterova, and the scientist Shatsky—manage to escape.
as Hans Miller
as Valya Nesterova
as Nikolay Shatskiy
as Pyotr Zanoza
as Oraz
as Bek-Memed
as Adzhar
as Guzar
as Ali-Bek
as (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as White officer
