Released:
1951-07-09

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.

Director:
Yuli Raizman

Runtime:
1h 52min

Genre:
Romance, Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Sergey Bondarchuk
  as
  Semyon Tutarinov
• 
  Anatoli Chemodurov
  as
  Semyon Goncharenko
• 
  Kira Kanayeva
  as
  Irina Lyubasheva
• 
  Boris Chirkov
  as
  Kondratyev
• 
  Nikolai Komissarov
  as
  Fyodor Lukich Khokhlakov