In the azure steppe

In the azure steppe (1971)

Drama

Three novellas based on M. Sholokhov's early stories about the first years of the formation of Soviet power on the Don. (1) “Koloverť”. Two Cossack brothers and their elderly father fight for the Bolsheviks, but when only Ignat and his father return to their White-held stanitsa, their third brother betrays them, sealing their fate by handing them over for execution. (2) “Chervotočina”. Idealistic Stepan joins the Komsomol against his wealthy Cossack family’s wishes, but when two oxen he lends to a poor neighbor vanish, his enraged father and brother beat both Stepan and the neighbor to death. (3) “Prodkomissar”. Commissar Ignat Bodiagin is charged with requisitioning grain for the Red Army, only to find his own father condemned for hoarding; he must preside over his execution and soon dies himself leading the resisting Cossacks away from the grain convoy.

Directors: Vitaly Koltsov, Oleg Bondarev, Valeri Lonskoy, Vladimir Shamshurin.

Casts

	Valentina Berezutskaya as
	Nadezhda Fedosova as
	Yevgeni Gerasimov as
	Zinaida Kirienko as
	Pyotr Kononykhin as
	Pavel Kormunin as
	Ivan Kosykh as
	Vladimir Kozel as
	Yevgeni Lebedev as
	Grigory Mikhaylov as
	Yuriy Nazarov as
	Daniil Netrebin as
	Nikolay Pogodin as
	Boris Rudnev as
	Viktor Semyonov as
	Viktor Sergachyov as
	Sergey Shakurov as
	Georgi Shapovalov as
	Vitaliy Shapovalov as
	Viktor Shulgin as
	Nikolai Smirnov as
	Yuri Smirnov as
	Lyubov Sokolova as
	Anatoliy Solonitsyn as
	Aleksei Zimovnoy as
	Gennadiy Morozov as казак

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