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.
as Commander Ivan Zhuravlyov
as Marya Nikolaevna Zhuravlyova
as Soldier Aleksey Timoshkin
as Aleksandr Petrovich Postnikov, geologist
as Colonel Skuratov
as Soldier Yusuf Akchurin
as Soldier Petr Sviridenko
as Soldier Petrov
as Soldier Dmitriy Levkoev
as Soldier Balandin
as Soldier Zhurba
as Soldier Muradov
as Soldier Nikolai Gusiev
as Soldier Kuliev
as (uncredited)
