Dream of a Cossack

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.

• Release date
• July 9, 1951
• Runtime
• 112 min
• Genres
• Romance, Drama
• Director
• Yuli Raizman

Cast

Sergey Bondarchuk Semyon Tutarinov Anatoli Chemodurov Semyon Goncharenko Kira Kanayeva Irina Lyubasheva Boris Chirkov Kondratyev Nikolai Komissarov Fyodor Lukich Khokhlakov Vladimir Ratomsky Stepan Petrovich Ragulin Nikolai Gritsenko Artamashov Ivan Pereverzev Boichenko