Dream of a Cossack

Dream of a Cossack

1951 · 112 min · ★ 5.6 · Romance, Drama

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.

Directed by Yuli Raizman · Written by Boris Chirskov

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Sergei Bondarchuk Semyon Tutarinov
Anatoli Chemodurov Semyon Goncharenko
Kira Kanayeva Irina Lyubasheva
Boris Chirkov Kondratyev
Nikolai Komissarov Fyodor Lukich Khokhlakov
Vladimir Ratomsky Stepan Petrovich Ragulin
Nikolai Gritsenko Artamashov
Ivan Pereverzev Boichenko
Tamara Nosova Anfisa
Stepan Kayukov Rubstov-Yennitsky
Sergei Troitsky
Aleksandra Panova Marfa Lubasheva

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