Deadly Enemy

Deadly Enemy

81 mins | Drama, Romance | Dec. 8, 1971

Based on the Don stories by Mikhail Sholokhov. Soviet power was only established on the Don, and a conflict broke out in the first commune: the wife of the commune’s leader Arseniy Klyukvin, having believed the promises of the white officer, fell in love and went to live with him with the child. She doesn't want to hide her feelings, but unable to withstand the bestial attitude of a white officer, she returns back to the Bolshevik.

Deadly Enemy

81 mins | Drama, Romance | Dec. 8, 1971

Deadly Enemy
Based on the Don stories by Mikhail Sholokhov. Soviet power was only established on the Don, and a conflict broke out in the first commune: the wife of the commune’s leader Arseniy Klyukvin, having believed the promises of the white officer, fell in love and went to live with him with the child. She doesn't want to hide her feelings, but unable to withstand the bestial attitude of a white officer, she returns back to the Bolshevik.
Producers Mosfilm
Original title Смертный враг
Directors Yevgeni Matveyev
Writers Arnold Vitol, Mikhail Sholokhov, Yevgeni Matveyev

Cast

Yevgeni Matveyev

as Arseniy

Stanislav Chekan

as Yashchurov

Aleksandr Lazarev

as Aleksandr

Georgiy Vitsin

as Yegor

Pyotr Glebov

as Vlas

Svetlana Konovalova

as Yashchurikha

Natalya Rychagova

as Dunyasha

Maya Bulgakova

as Yevdokha

Boris Yurchenko

as Fedot

Aleksei Inzhevatov

as Mitrokha

Stepan Krylov

as unit secretary

Vladimir Pitsek

as Petrovich

Sergei Sizov

as Grishutka

Zoya Vasilkova

as Vlas's wife

Lidiya Dranovskaya

as hungry refugee

Pyotr Kiryutkin

as Filipp

Galina Samokhina

as hungry refugee