The degree of emotionality was significantly reduced.
The censors had a lot of complaints about Vladimir Motyl’s outstanding work “White Sun of the Desert.” After filming ended, the director was forced to make changes to his film, without which the road to the big screen would be blocked.
Among the scenes that had to be redrawn to suit the tastes of officials was the ending of the popular film. The episode with Vereshchagin’s wife, Nastasya, seemed too strange to many.
In the story, a woman went crazy, experiencing the death of her loved one. Before the final credits, the widow wanders through the desert, where she stumbles upon sand-covered rails. Muttering something inaudibly under her breath, she begins to crawl along them.
It was this spectacle that the members of the artistic council demanded to replace with something less emotional. As a result, the audience was shown only those shots in which actress Raisa Kurkina slowly walks along the shore past the horses.