In the azure steppe
Directed by Valeri Lonskoy, Oleg Bondarev, Vitaly Koltsov, Vladimir Shamshurin
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Three novellas based on M. Sholokhov's early stories about the first years of the formation of Soviet power on the Don. (1) “Koloverť”. Two Cossack brothers and their elderly father fight for the Bolsheviks, but when only Ignat and his father return to their White-held stanitsa, their third brother betrays them, sealing their fate by handing them over for execution. (2) “Chervotočina”. Idealistic Stepan joins the Komsomol against his wealthy Cossack family’s wishes, but when two oxen he lends to a poor neighbor vanish, his enraged father and brother beat both Stepan and the neighbor to death. (3) “Prodkomissar”. Commissar Ignat Bodiagin is charged with requisitioning grain for the Red Army, only to find his own father condemned for hoarding; he must preside over his execution and soon dies himself leading the resisting Cossacks away from the grain convoy.Read moreLess
Three novellas based on M. Sholokhov's early stories about the first years of the formation of Soviet power on the Don. (1) “Koloverť”. Two Cossack brothers and their elderly father fight for the Bolsheviks, but when only Ignat and his father return to their White-held stanitsa, their third brother betrays them, sealing their fate by handing them over for execution. (2) “Chervotočina”. Idealistic Stepan joins the Komsomol against his wealthy Cossack family’s wishes, but when two oxen he lends to a poor neighbor vanish, his enraged father and brother beat both Stepan and the neighbor to death. (3) “Prodkomissar”. Commissar Ignat Bodiagin is charged with requisitioning grain for the Red Army, only to find his own father condemned for hoarding; he must preside over his execution and soon dies himself leading the resisting Cossacks away from the grain convoy.
The story
Three novellas based on M. Sholokhov's early stories about the first years of the formation of Soviet power on the Don. (1) “Koloverť”. Two Cossack brothers and their elderly father fight for the Bolsheviks, but when only Ignat and his father return to their White-held stanitsa, their third brother betrays them, sealing their fate by handing them over for execution. (2) “Chervotočina”. Idealistic Stepan joins the Komsomol against his wealthy Cossack family’s wishes, but when two oxen he lends to a poor neighbor vanish, his enraged father and brother beat both Stepan and the neighbor to death. (3) “Prodkomissar”. Commissar Ignat Bodiagin is charged with requisitioning grain for the Red Army, only to find his own father condemned for hoarding; he must preside over his execution and soon dies himself leading the resisting Cossacks away from the grain convoy.
Cast & crew
Valentina Berezutskaya
Nadezhda Fedosova
Yevgeni Gerasimov
Zinaida KirienkoCast
Pyotr KononykhinCast
Pavel KormuninCast
Ivan KosykhCast
Vladimir KozelCast
Yevgeni LebedevCast
Grigory Mikhaylov
Yuriy NazarovCast
Daniil NetrebinCastExplore the crew
- Director
- Valeri Lonskoy
- Director
- Oleg Bondarev
- Director
- Vitaly Koltsov
- Writer
- Oleg Bondarev
- Writer
- Vladimir Shamshurin
- Director
- Vladimir Shamshurin
- Writer
- Yuriy Lukin
- Writer
- Valentin Popov
- Writer
- Valeri Lonskoy
- Director of Photography
- Igor Melnikov
- Original Music Composer
- Mikhail Ziv
- Original Music Composer
- Nikolai Sidelnikov
- Director of Photography
- Grigoriy Shpakler
- Director of Photography
- Aleksandr Ryabov