Greetings gentle readers and welcome to another installment of the Sunday Morning Move. Today it’s a “Red Western”, White Sun of the Desert : and next week’s film, Iphigenia : Reviews of White Sun of the Desert : Genregrinder says: I’m barely familiar with the subgenre myself, mostly due to lack of availability and the fact that learning all I can about European westerns is already a substantial commitment. Still, even a neophyte like myself knows the reputation of Vladimir Motyl’s quintessential ostern, White Sun of the Desert (1970). This bone-dry, sometimes absurdist, often dramatic send-up of Russian history that borrows concepts, archetypes, and visual language from Hollywood westerns, like Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo (1959) and Fred Zinnemann’s High Noon (1952), and Italian westerns, like Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Italian: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, 1966) and Sergio Corbucci’s Django (1966).…