Dream of a Cossack

Overview

Soviet filmmaker Yuri Raisman once more combines political dogma with solid entertainment values in Dream of a Cossack (aka Cavalier of the Golden Star). The title character, played by future director Sergei Bondarchuk (and billed for obscure reasons as Semyon Bondarchuk), is an ex-soldier who returns home to the Kuban region, there to take up life as a farmer. Instead, he galvanizes the local citizenry into participating in a massive construction project, which will result in a new power station and canal. Thus does Raisman offer an prime example of Russian collectivism while making it seem as though it had sprung from individual initiative. Dream of a Cossack is based on a popular novel by S. Babayefsky.

Directed by Yuli Raizman

Top cast

Sergei Bondarchuk

Semyon Tutarinov

Anatoli Chemodurov

Semyon Goncharenko

Kira Kanayeva

Irina Lyubasheva

Boris Chirkov

Kondratyev

Nikolai Komissarov

Fyodor Lukich Khokhlakov

Vladimir Ratomsky

Stepan Petrovich Ragulin

Nikolai Gritsenko

Artamashov

Ivan Pereverzev

Boichenko

Tamara Nosova

Anfisa

Stepan Kayukov

Rubstov-Yennitsky

Sergei Troitsky

Aleksandra Panova

Marfa Lubasheva

Danylo Ilchenko

Timofey Ilyich

Pyotr Kiryutkin

Nenashev

Mariya Yarotskaya

Vasilisa Nilovna

Boris Bityukov

Viktor Grachev

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Ivan Kobozev

Vladimir Uralskiy

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