Dream of a Cossack

The story

Soviet filmmaker Yuri Raisman once more combines political dogma with solid entertainment values in Dream of a Cossack (aka Cavalier of the Golden Star). The title character, played by future director Sergei Bondarchuk (and billed for obscure reasons as Semyon Bondarchuk), is an ex-soldier who returns home to the Kuban region, there to take up life as a farmer. Instead, he galvanizes the local citizenry into participating in a massive construction project, which will result in a new power station and canal. Thus does Raisman offer an prime example of Russian collectivism while making it seem as though it had sprung from individual initiative. Dream of a Cossack is based on a popular novel by S. Babayefsky.

Cast

S Sergei BondarchukSemyon Tutarinov A Anatoli ChemodurovSemyon Goncharenko K Kira KanayevaIrina Lyubasheva B Boris ChirkovKondratyev N Nikolai KomissarovFyodor Lukich Khokhlakov V Vladimir RatomskyStepan Petrovich Ragulin N Nikolai GritsenkoArtamashov I Ivan PereverzevBoichenko T Tamara NosovaAnfisa S Stepan KayukovRubstov-Yennitsky S Sergei Troitsky A Aleksandra PanovaMarfa Lubasheva

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D Danylo IlchenkoTimofey Ilyich P Pyotr KiryutkinNenashev M Mariya YarotskayaVasilisa Nilovna B Boris BityukovViktor Grachev I Ivan Kobozev V Vladimir UralskiyAgriculturist