Overview

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.

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Cast

Rupert Everett

Grigory

Delphine Forest

Aksinia

F. Murray Abraham

Pantaley

Ben Gazzara

Secretov

Natalya Andreychenko

Daria

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