In the azure steppe

The story

Three novellas based on M. Sholokhov's early stories about the first years of the formation of Soviet power on the Don. (1) “Koloverť”. Two Cossack brothers and their elderly father fight for the Bolsheviks, but when only Ignat and his father return to their White-held stanitsa, their third brother betrays them, sealing their fate by handing them over for execution. (2) “Chervotočina”. Idealistic Stepan joins the Komsomol against his wealthy Cossack family’s wishes, but when two oxen he lends to a poor neighbor vanish, his enraged father and brother beat both Stepan and the neighbor to death. (3) “Prodkomissar”. Commissar Ignat Bodiagin is charged with requisitioning grain for the Red Army, only to find his own father condemned for hoarding; he must preside over his execution and soon dies himself leading the resisting Cossacks away from the grain convoy.

Cast

V Valentina Berezutskaya N Nadezhda Fedosova Y Yevgeni Gerasimov Z Zinaida Kirienko P Pyotr Kononykhin P Pavel Kormunin I Ivan Kosykh V Vladimir Kozel Y Yevgeni Lebedev G Grigory Mikhaylov Y Yuriy Nazarov D Daniil Netrebin

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N Nikolay Pogodin B Boris Rudnev V Viktor Semyonov V Viktor Sergachyov S Sergey Shakurov G Georgi Shapovalov V Vitaliy Shapovalov V Viktor Shulgin N Nikolai Smirnov Y Yuri Smirnov L Lyubov Sokolova A Anatoliy Solonitsyn A Aleksei Zimovnoy G Gennadiy Morozovказак