The Thirteen[a] is a 1937 Soviet epic red western action adventure film directed by Mikhail Romm.

[1] In Soviet Central Asia, ten demobilized Red Army soldiers ride through the desert to the railroad.

Three more people are with them: commander of the frontier Zhuravlev and his wife Maria Nikolaevna and an old geologist.

In the desert, they find a well and hidden machine guns – this is the base of Basmach Shirmat Khan, whom the Red Army could not neutralize for a whole year.

The 1943 American film Sahara, directed by Zoltan Korda and starring Humphrey Bogart, and its 1995 remake have significant plot similarities.