Based on the Nobel prize-winning novel Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail A Sholokov, this epic deals with both heroes and villains of the uprisings during WWI, the Bolshevik revolution and the Russian Civil War.The first revolts threaten the power of the Czar Nicholas II. In the village of Tatarsjuky, on the shores of the river Don, lives the Cossack family of Melechov.Gregor (Rupert Everett) considers military service as the only way to find fulfilment as a man and to escape from his patriarchal family ruled by his stern father Pantaleimon (F. Murray Abraham).
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Sergei Bondarchuk directs this epic adaptation of Mikhail Sholokov's Nobel Prize-winning novel. Rupert Everett stars as the Cossack, Grigory Melekhov, and the film follows his colourful life from just before the First World War, through the Bolshevik Revolution and on to the Russian Civil War. Although the filming took place in 1992-1993, the final edit was not completed until 2006. Originally shown as a seven-part miniseries on Russian television, this is the shorter version designed for international release. Delphine Forest, F. Murray Abraham and Ben Gazzara co-star.
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