And Quiet Flows the Don
The first screen adaptation of an epic Russian novel about a village of Cossacks on the Don River, covering the last days of peace on the riverside before the beginning of the First World War.
The first screen adaptation of an epic Russian novel about a village of Cossacks on the Don River, covering the last days of peace on the riverside before the beginning of the First World War.
Nikolay Podgorny
Pantelej Prokofievich Melekhov
Andrei Abrikosov
Grigori Pantelejevich Melekhov
Emma Tsesarskaya
Aksinya Astagova
Raisa Puzhnaya
Natalya Koshonova
Alexandr Gromov
Petr Melekhov
Georgi Kovrov
Stepan Astakhov
Elena Maksimova
Daria Melekhova
Sergey Churakovskiy
Yevgeniy Listnitskiy
Vasiliy Kovrigin
Prokofij Melekhov
The first screen adaptation of an epic Russian novel about a village of Cossacks on the Don River, covering the last days of peace on the riverside before the beginning of the First World War.
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