And Quiet Flows the Don (1957)
"Tikhiy Don" (original title)

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... See full summary »

Director:

Sergei Gerasimov

Writers:

Sergei Gerasimov, Mikhail Sholokhov (novel)

Stars:

Pyotr Glebov, Elina Bystritskaya, Zinaida Kirienko

1 win.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Pyotr Glebov	...	Grigori Melekhov
Elina Bystritskaya	...	Aksiniya
Zinaida Kirienko	...	Natalya
Daniil Ilchenko	...	Panteleimon Prokofyevich Melekhov (as Danilo Ilchenko)
A. Filippova	...	Iljinicna
Nikolai Smirnov	...	Pyotr Melekhov
Lyudmila Khityaeva	...	Dariya Melekhova
Natalya Arkhangelskaya	...	Dunyashka (as N. Arkhangelskaya)
Aleksandr Blagovestov	...	Stepan Lekatov (as A. Blagovestov)
Igor Dmitriev	...	Yevgeni Listnitsky
Aleksandr Shatov	...	Listnitsky Father
Boris Novikov	...	Mitka Korshunov
Aleksandr Zhukov	...	Miron Koshevoy
G. Karyakin	...	Mikhail Koshevoy
Viliam Shatunovsky	...	Shtokman (as V. Shatunovsky)

Storyline

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.

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Plot Keywords:

russian revolution | river | cossack | first part | remake | 

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Genres:

Drama | War

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Details

Country:

Soviet Union

Language:

Russian

Release Date:

1 January 1960 (USA)

Also Known As:

And Quiet Flows the Don

Company Credits

Production Co:

Gorky Film Studios

Technical Specs

Runtime:

340 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Sovcolor)

Did You Know?

Trivia

Original Russian film is 340 minutes long (film length 9,582 m). It was reduced to 107 minutes for international distribution.

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Connections

Followed by Tikhiy Don II (1958)

User Reviews

Once upon a time there was 'Tikhiy Don'...

This is one of those movies which would haunt you again and again after you watched it once. And more over -- the more you watch it the more you find something new about yourself,people and life. Thikhiy Don depicts life of two -- man and woman, their love, their hardships, their fight for their love and all this happens against the backdrop of a wide picture of life of the whole country during a very dramatical and crucial period of Russia, including WW1, civilian war,and a lot of others events. I don't know another movie where love was depicted so sincerely and so nicely as it was done here. Petr Glebov and Elina Bystritskaya not played they lived on the screen, as did the love of their heroes. The movie turned out to be very realistic, with big respect for details. Before the movie was set out actors lived several months at the khutor where events of the book really took place. A lot of beautiful Russian actors performed in this movie, each performance is a little masterpiece. The music was written by Yuriy Levitin, one of the best follower of Shostakovitch and it matches the movie very well. The director did a superb job, there are no details missed in this movie, all was in check by director, even the river itself which gave the name to the whole thing was one of the actors -- Don i mean. In my opinion it is one of the best movie made in the 20 th century. Some people could compare it with 'Gone with the wind'but i appreciate it much higher. I rate it 10.