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Quiet Flows the Don

Rating
7.4
115
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Original title
Tikhiy Donaka
AKA
  • Quiet Flows the Don
  • And Quiet Flows the Don
Year
Running time
340 min.
Country
Soviet Union  (USSR) Soviet Union (USSR)
Director
Screenwriter
Cast
Music
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Genre
Drama. War | I World War. 1920s. Russian Revolution
Synopsis
A six-hour long epic (original director's cut) about the life of Don Cossacs in a village in southern Russia between 1912 and 1922. The leading character Grigori Melekhov is a rugged Cossac, who is torn between his first and true love Aksiniya, and his wife Natalya. Grigori Melekhov's personal life is shown as a rough journey through the experience of World War One, the Russian Revolution, and the following Civil War. The Cossacs are shown as traditional farmers and warriors, who are suffering through the most dramatic events in the history of Russia.
Awards
1958: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival: Best Film
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User history
Quiet Flows the Don
1957
Sergei Gerasimov
7.4
(115)
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