Quiet Flows the Don

Quiet Flows the Don

1957 · 340 min · RU · 6.5 (21 votes)
Dir. Sergei Gerasimov · Starring Danylo Ilchenko, Anastasiya Filippova, Pyotr Glebov, Nikolai Smirnov, Lyudmila Khityaeva, Natalya Arkhangelskaya · Music Yuriy Levitin

The epic film based on Mikhail Sholokhov's classic novel in COLOR

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Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia (1917-1922), about the collapse of the foundations and ideals of the Don Cossacks of Russia at the beginning of the XX century, about the personal tragedy of the protagonist — Grigoriy Melekhov.

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A sweeping, tragic saga of a Cossack family caught in the maelstrom of war and revolution. It's a somber, character-driven drama that feels both grand in scope and deeply personal in its exploration of loss and changing times.

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based on novel or bookworld war icossackbolshevik1910s