176 minutes
11/7/2006
With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with earthly humor and a wealth of colorful characters. The story concerns the fluctuating fortunes of Grigory Melekhov, a young Cossack who is both a hero and a victim of the uprising.
Rupert Everett
as Grigory
Delphine Forest
as Aksinia
F. Murray Abraham
as Pantaley
Ben Gazzara
as Secretov
Lorenzo Amato
as Mitka Korshunov
Natalya Andreychenko
as Daria
Mikhail Baskov
as Koshevoy
Alexander Bespalis
as Prokor Zykov
Alyona Bondarchuk
as Natalia
Sergey Bondarchuk
as General Krasnov
Vladimir Gostyukhin
as Petr
Nikolai Karachentsov
as Scheglov
Gennadi Karnovich-Valua
as General Lysytzyn
Ivan Lapikov
as old cossack
Boris Shcherbakov
as Stepan
Irina Skobtseva
as Vasilisa Ilinichna
Ivan Vlasov
Andrey Rudensky
as Listnitsky
Nikolay Zasukhin
Mikhail Golubovich
as Christonya
Yuliya Zhiveynova
as Dunyasha
Pavel Ostroukhov
as cossack
Aleksandr Zharkov
as Ivan Alekseevich
Ivan Bondar
as musician
Nikita Mikhalkov
as narrator (voice)
Galina Anisimova
as Aleshka's widow
Fyodor Valikov
as grandpa Sashka
Igor Shpilev
Alla Malkova
as submariner (uncredited)
Mikhail Negin
as Martin Shamil
Konstiantin Artyomenko
as Beskhlebnov
Aleksandr Melnikov