Dream of a Cossack 1951
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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.
- Released: 1951-07-09
- Runtime: 112 minutes
- Genre: Romance, Drama
- Stars: Sergey Bondarchuk, Anatoli Chemodurov, Kira Kanayeva, Boris Chirkov, Nikolai Komissarov
- Director: Yuli Raizman, Sergei Urusevsky, Tikhon Khrennikov, Семен Бабаевский, Boris Chirskov
