And Quiet Flows the Don

1931 DramaHistory 87 minutes Directed by Ivan Pravov

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About And Quiet Flows the Don

The film takes the first two books of Mikhail Sholokhov's novel and the last days of peace in a Don Cossack village before the First World War. Grigory Melekhov, played by Andrei Abrikosov, is at the center of the break in that life. Emma Tsesarskaya plays Aksinya and Raisa Puzhnaya plays Natalya. Ivan Pravov and Olga Preobrazhenskaya directed. Wikidata lists only Preobrazhenskaya.

Cast & crew

More about And Quiet Flows the Don

Dmitry Feldman photographed it. Wikidata lists 87 minutes and the dates March 14, 1931, and September 14, 1933. Wikipedia calls it a 1930 film, the year on the Commons file, while the catalog year kept here is 1931.

Themes

  • a Cossack village before the war
  • Grigory Melekhov
  • Aksinya and Natalya
  • Aksinya
  • Don Cossacks
  • Sholokhov
  • 1914

Background

Sholokhov's opening books, and this film, sit on the Don in the last peace before 1914 and then in the wreck of Cossack custom.

Look

Dmitry Feldman photographed the Soyuzkino and Mosfilm production.

Notes

  • Nikolay Podgorny plays Pantelei Melekhov and Aleksandr Gromov plays Pyotr Melekhov.
  • Georgi Kovrov plays Stepan Astakhov and Yelena Maksimova plays Daria.
  • The English plot stays with the war, the revolution, and Grigory's private disaster, without a scene list.
  • No composer is listed on Wikidata.

Scenes

  • The English page frames the film as the personal wreck of Grigory Melekhov inside the Don community.

Influenced by

  • Mikhail Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don, books one and two

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (Тихий Дон (1930).webm)