Dream of a Cossack
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.
Cast
Sergei Bondarchuk
Semyon TutarinovAnatoli Chemodurov
Semyon GoncharenkoBoris Chirkov
KondratyevNikolai Komissarov
Fyodor Lukich KhokhlakovVladimir Ratomsky
Stepan Petrovich RagulinNikolai Gritsenko
ArtamashovIvan Pereverzev
BoichenkoTamara Nosova
AnfisaStepan Kayukov
Rubstov-YennitskySergei Troitsky
Aleksandra Panova
Marfa LubashevaPyotr Kiryutkin
NenashevMariya Yarotskaya
Vasilisa NilovnaBoris Bityukov
Viktor Grachev