Overview
The first screen adaptation of an epic Russian novel about a village of Cossacks on the Don River, covering the last days of peace on the riverside before the beginning of the First World War.
Cast
- Nikolay Podgorny as Pantelej Prokofievich Melekhov
- Andrei Abrikosov as Grigori Pantelejevich Melekhov
- Emma Tsesarskaya as Aksinya Astagova
- Raisa Puzhnaya as Natalya Koshonova
- Alexandr Gromov as Petr Melekhov
- Georgi Kovrov as Stepan Astakhov
- Elena Maksimova as Daria Melekhova
- Sergey Churakovskiy as Yevgeniy Listnitskiy
- Vasiliy Kovrigin as Prokofij Melekhov
- Ivan Bykov as Garandza