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.
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Valentina Berezutskaya
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Valeri Lonskoy Director · Oleg Bondarev Director Vladimir Shamshurin Director
Director Writer
Valeri Lonskoy
Director Writer
Oleg Bondarev
Director Writer
Vladimir Shamshurin
Director
Vitaly Koltsov
Author
Mikhail Sholokhov
Composer
Mikhail Ziv
Composer
Nikolai Sidelnikov
Cinematographer
Aleksandr Ryabov
Cinematographer
Grigoriy Shpakler
Cinematographer
Igor Melnikov
Production designer
Konstantin Stepanov
Production designer
Nikolai Usachyov
First release June 7, 1971 · Produced in Russia · Original title В лазоревой степи
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Mosfilm
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Russia
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Original title
В лазоревой степи
Original language
Russian
Release dates
Russia · June 7, 1971
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