Quiet Flows The Don

Quiet Flows The Don

176 mins | Drama, Romance, War | Nov. 7, 2006

With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with earthly humor and a wealth of colorful characters. The story concerns the fluctuating fortunes of Grigory Melekhov, a young Cossack who is both a hero and a victim of the uprising.

Quiet Flows The Don

176 mins | Drama, Romance, War | Nov. 7, 2006

Quiet Flows The Don
With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with earthly humor and a wealth of colorful characters. The story concerns the fluctuating fortunes of Grigory Melekhov, a young Cossack who is both a hero and a victim of the uprising.
IMDb rating 4.9
Producers International Cinema Company (ICC), Madison Motion Pictures, Pro-Cinema Production
Original title Тихий Дон
Directors Fyodor Bondarchuk, Sergey Bondarchuk
Writers Robert Balchus, Mikhail Sholokhov, Nicola Badalucco, Sergey Bondarchuk

Cast

Rupert Everett

as Grigory

Delphine Forest

as Aksinia

F. Murray Abraham

as Pantaley

Ben Gazzara

as Secretov

Lorenzo Amato

as Mitka Korshunov

Mikhail Baskov

as Koshevoy

Alexander Bespalis

as Prokor Zykov

Alena Bondarchuk

as Natalia

Sergey Bondarchuk

as General Krasnov

Nikolai Karachentsov

as Scheglov

Gennadi Karnovich-Valua

as General Lysytzyn

Ivan Lapikov

as old cossack

Boris Shcherbakov

as Stepan

Irina Skobtseva

as Vasilisa Ilinichna

Andrey Rudensky

as Listnitsky

Mykhaylo Holubovych

as Christonya

Yuliya Zhiveynova

as Dunyasha

Pavel Ostroukhov

as cossack

Aleksandr Zharkov

as Ivan Alekseevich

Ivan Bondar

as musician

Nikita Mikhalkov

as narrator (voice)

Galina Anisimova

as Aleshka's widow

Fyodor Valikov

as grandpa Sashka

Alla Malkova

as submariner (uncredited)

Mikhail Negin

as Martin Shamil

Konstantin Artyomenko

as Beskhlebnov