Dream of a Cossack
Кавалер Золотой звезды
Release: 1951-07-09
·Runtime: 112m
·★ 5.4
Romance
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Mosfilm
Cast
Nikolai Komissarov
as Fyodor Lukich Khokhlakov
Vladimir Ratomsky
as Stepan Petrovich Ragulin
Nikolai Gritsenko
as Artamashov
Ivan Pereverzev
as Boichenko
Mariya Yarotskaya
as Vasilisa Nilovna
Tamara Nosova
as Anfisa
Stepan Kayukov
as Rubstov-Yennitsky
Boris Bityukov
as Viktor Grachev
Anatoli Chemodurov
as Semyon Goncharenko
Aleksandra Panova
as Marfa Lubasheva
Vladimir Uralskiy
as Agriculturist
Sergei Troitsky
Pyotr Kiryutkin
as Nenashev
Sergey Bondarchuk
as Semyon Tutarinov
Boris Chirkov
as Kondratyev
Crew
Aleksei Parkhomenko
Production Design
Tatyana Likhachyova
Editor
Sergei Urusevsky
Director of Photography
Viktor Maslennikov
Camera Operator
Tikhon Khrennikov
Original Music Composer
Boris Chirskov
Screenplay
Grigoriy Ayzenberg
VFX Director of Photography
Yuli Raizman
Director
Naum Trakhtenberg
Assistant Director
Lyudmila Aleksandrovskaya
VFX Artist