With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with earthly humor and a wealth of colorful characters. The story concerns the fluctuating fortunes of Grigory Melekhov, a young Cossack who is both a hero and a victim of the uprising.
Cast
Rupert Everett
Grigory
Delphine Forest
Aksinia
F. Murray Abraham
Pantaley
Ben Gazzara
Secretov
Lorenzo Amato
Mitka Korshunov
Natalya Andreychenko
Daria
Mikhail Baskov
Koshevoy
Alexander Bespalis
Prokor Zykov
Alyona Bondarchuk
Natalia
Sergey Bondarchuk
General Krasnov
Vladimir Gostyukhin
Petr
Nikolai Karachentsov
Scheglov
Gennadi Karnovich-Valua
General Lysytzyn
Ivan Lapikov
old cossack
Boris Shcherbakov
Stepan
Irina Skobtseva
Vasilisa Ilinichna
Ivan Vlasov
Unknown
Andrey Rudensky
Listnitsky
Nikolay Zasukhin
Unknown
Mikhail Golubovich
Christonya
Yuliya Zhiveynova
Dunyasha
Pavel Ostroukhov
cossack
Aleksandr Zharkov
Ivan Alekseevich
Ivan Bondar
musician
Nikita Mikhalkov
narrator (voice)
Galina Anisimova
Aleshka's widow
Fyodor Valikov
grandpa Sashka
Igor Shpilev
Unknown
Alla Malkova
submariner (uncredited)
Mikhail Negin
Martin Shamil
Konstiantin Artyomenko
Beskhlebnov
Aleksandr Melnikov
Unknown
Crew
Fyodor Bondarchuk
Director
Sergey Bondarchuk
Director, Screenplay
Nicola Badalucco
Screenplay
Robert Balchus
Screenplay
Mikhail Sholokhov
Novel
Paul LaMastra
Editor
Daniele Nannuzzi
Director of Photography
Enzo Rispoli
Producer
Danilo Donati
Production Design
Sibylle Ulsamer
Costume Design
Ted Rusoff
ADR & Dubbing
Luis Bacalov
Original Music Composer
Giovanni Natalucci
Art Direction
