Talk:White Sun of the Desert

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Setting

Nowhere in the article is it stated when the film is set, only where. Presumably it's set in the early or mid-1920s? The lack of a time setting makes it seem like the action is contemporary to 1970, which is misleading. If anyone knows when it is set, can you please add that information?

62.228.16.248 (talk) 11:40, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled

Polish cosmonaut Mirosław Hermaszewski said, that every russian and Interkosmos cosmonaut was obliged to watch "White Sun of the Desert" before flight. For example his captain, Klimuk, had to watch this third time before they flown to space (http://wyborcza.pl/1,75480,5337463,Polak_z_Sojuza.html - atricle in polish). Maybe this version contained some subliminal messages to improve mental condition ? Or it has simply very good influence on the people's mind ? Sorry for my english. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.129.235.109 (talk) 15:56, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It is kind of a semi-official tradition, a lucky charm. How it started is not very clear, at least two versions are mentioned in RuWiki article on the movie. 176.115.39.145 (talk) 13:29, 6 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Poster

I have replaced this poster with a DVD cover for two major reasons:

The poster is primitive and inaccurate (it shows Sukhov on top, whereas Sukhov never rides a horse or shoots a rifle at anyone in the film); the DVD cover portrays him and Sayid much more realistically.
I can't find any evidence that the poster was actually used by Moslfilm or Motyl, only that it was drawn for the movie in 1970. Materialscientist (talk) 03:02, 25 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

1970 USSR State Prize

Something is suspicious with dates in the source cited. The two other films discussed there, By the Lake and ru:Обвиняются в убийстве received the 1971 state prize, not 1970. The "ideological" arguments look plausible, but the 1970 state prize went to We'll Live Till Monday, which was extremely popular as well and can hardly be seen as "ideologically correct": schoolchildren boycott a teacher of English, etc. As far as I understand, nominations for state prizes lagged after the release year for more than 1 year, so maybe only year of nomination may be fixed from other sources. - Altenmann >talk 17:58, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]