Dream of a Cossack

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.

Country:

Soviet Union

Genre:

Romance,

Drama

Duration:

112 minutes

Year:

1951

Director:

Yuli Raizman

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Company:

Mosfilm

Cast:

Semyon Tutarinov

Semyon Goncharenko

Irina Lyubasheva

Kondratyev

Fyodor Lukich Khokhlakov

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