The Cossacks

The Cossacks

97 mins | Drama | Aug. 14, 1961

Historical drama based on the eponymous novel by Leo Tolstoy. Junker Olenin, a representative of St.Petersburg's golden youth, is traveling from St.Petersburg to the Caucasus in search of romance. His regiment is stationed in the Cossack village. Here he falls in love with the beautiful Maryana and is ready to marry her, but she loves the Cossack Lukashka and is not going to exchange him for the master...

The Cossacks

97 mins | Drama | Aug. 14, 1961

The Cossacks
Historical drama based on the eponymous novel by Leo Tolstoy. Junker Olenin, a representative of St.Petersburg's golden youth, is traveling from St.Petersburg to the Caucasus in search of romance. His regiment is stationed in the Cossack village. Here he falls in love with the beautiful Maryana and is ready to marry her, but she loves the Cossack Lukashka and is not going to exchange him for the master...
Producers Mosfilm
Original title Казаки
Directors Vasily Pronin
Writers Viktor Shklovskiy, Leo Tolstoy

Cast

Leonid Gubanov

as Dmitri Olenin

Boris Andreyev

as Yeroshka

Zinaida Kirienko

as Maryana

Eduard Bredun

as Lukashka

Boris Novikov

as Nazarka

German Kachin

as Vanyusha

Izabella Mehn

as Ustenka

Vera Yenyutina

as Maryana's mother

Konstantin Gradopolov

as Beletsky

Vsevolod Safonov

as Olenin's friend

Leonid Topchiyev

as Olenin's friend

Aleksandra Danilova

as Lukashka's mother

Artur Nishchyonkin

as Yergushov

Ivan Lyubeznov

as khorunzhyi

Yevgeni Shutov

as Velenchuk

Anatoli Papanov

as khorunzhyi