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historical action/drama set in
Siberia
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,
Russia
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. Adapted from the
novel
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of the same name by Konstantin Sedykh and
directed
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by
Viktor Tregubovich
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While the movie was criticized by some Soviet critics for its historical inaccuracies, its epic scope and intense battle scenes won wide praise and has been credited with affecting the political landscape of Siberian Russia.
in the Siberian province of Dauria at the time of the
communist revolution
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. Focused on a Cossack village that is living like one big family under the guidance of a strong leader - Ataman ( Kopelyan).
Young Cossack Roman Ulybin ( Solomin) is in love with beautiful Dashutka (Golovina). Roman is asking his father, Severian Ulybin ( Shelokhonov), to send a Matchmaker ( Shukshina) before it's too late. But father Severian has no money, while wealthy crook has already hired the Matchmaker, and his son gets married at the lavish traditional wedding with singing, dancing and drinking in the Russian style.
So, frustrated Roman Ulybin leaves his father's home to follow his big brother Vasili, a Communist leader who promises happiness after the revolution. But, after the revolution, people suffer a cascade of troubles. Good old traditional life is destroyed by chaos, lawlessness and crime. Greed and envy blinds many people, and they forget their good traditions and life as good neighbors. Cossack leader Ataman is brutally beaten and humiliated by
executioner
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. Roman's father, Severian, is murdered in a wrongful dispute, and Roman is too late to reconcile with his father.
Cast
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Vitali Solomin
Vitaly Mefodievich Solomin (russian: link=no, Виталий Мефодьевич Соломин; 12 December 194127 May 2002) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter, best remembered for playing Dr. Watson in a series of Sherloc ...
as Roman Ulybin. The son of Severian
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Petr Shelokhonov
Petr Illarionovich Shelokhonov, ( pl, Piotr Szełochonow, russian: Пётр Илларио́нович Шелохо́нов, be, Пятро Ларывонавіч Шэлахонаў, uk, Петро Іларіонович Шелохонов; in ...
as Severian Ulybin. The father of Roman
*
Yefim Kopelyan
Yefim Zakharovich Kopelyan (russian: Ефим Захарович Копелян; 12 April 1912 – 6 March 1975) was a Soviet Union, Soviet actor of theatre and cinema, one of the legendary masters of the Bolshoi Theatre of Drama (BDT) in Leni ...
as Ataman Kargin, the leader of Cossacks
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Vasily Shukshin
Vasily Makarovich Shukshin (russian: Василий Макарович Шукшин; 25 July 1929 – 2 October 1974) was a Soviet Russian writer, actor, screenwriter and film director from the Altai region who specialized in rural themes. A ...
as Vasili Ulybin, the leader of Communists
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Yury Solomin
Yury Mefodievich Solomin (russian: Ю́рий Мефо́диевич Соло́мин; born June 18, 1935 in Chita) is a Soviet and Russian actor and director who has been art director of the Maly Theatre in Moscow since 1988. Minister of Culture ...
as Semen, a Communist agent
* Mikhail Kokshenov as Fedot, the neighbor of Ulybins
* Arkadi Trusov as Grandfather Ulybin
* Vera Kuznetsova as Ulybina. The wife of Severian
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Viktor Pavlov
Viktor Pavlovich Pavlov (russian: Ви́ктор Па́влович Па́влов; October 5, 1940 – August 24, 2006) was a Russian stage and film actor.
Pavlov worked in some of the most popular theatres of Moscow: 1963–1965 - Sovremen ...
as Nikifor, a hard core Cossack
* Svetlana Golovina as Dashutka, the love interest of Roman Ulybin
* Zhenya Malyantsev as Roman's little brother
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Fyodor Odinokov
Fyodor Ivanovich Odinokov (russian: Фёдор Ива́нович Одино́ков; — 19 February 1994) was a Soviet actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1938 to 1994.
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as Dashutka's father
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Lyubov Malinovskaya
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* Russian: ''Любовь'' (Lyubov, Liubov, Lubov), ''Люба'' (Lyuba, Liuba, Luba)
* U ...
as Dashutka's mother
* Yuri Nazarov as a runaway prisoner
* Vsevolod Kuznetsov as Cossack Platon Volokitin
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Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
Lidiya Nikolayevna Fedoseyeva-Shukshina (russian: Лидия Николаевна Федосеева-Шукшина; born 25 September 1938, in Leningrad) is a Russian actress and widow of writer, actor and director Vasily Shukshin. She is the mo ...
as Matchmaker
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Zinovi Gerdt
Zinovy Yefimovich Gerdt (russian: Зино́вий Ефи́мович Гердт, which is a pseudonym, his real name being Zalman Afroimovich Khrapinovich (За́лман Афро́имович Храпино́вич); 21 September 1916 in Sebez ...
as Tsarist General Semenov
* Georgi Shtil as Anarchist Revolutionary
* Igor Yefimov as Cossack
* Dmitri Masanov as Cossack
* Vladimir Losev as Cossack
* Sergei Polezhaev as White Russian officer
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Aleksandr Demyanenko
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Demyanenko (russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Демья́ненко; May 30, 1937 – August 22, 1999) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was given the honorary distinction of People's Artist of the RSFSR. H ...
as Executioner
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Igor Dmitriev
Igor Borisovich Dmitriev (russian: И́горь Бори́сович Дми́триев) (29 May 1927 – 26 January 2008) was a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actor who specialized in playing aristocratic characters in costume productions ( ...
as Executioner
Crew
*Director: Viktor Tregubovich
*Writers: Konstantin Sedykh,
Yuri Klepikov
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Release
* 1971 theatrical release, Soviet Union
* 1975 theatrical release in Finland and other European nations
* 1985 VHS release, Soviet Union
* 2002 DVD release, worldwide
Reception
* Attendance: 47 million, theatrical, in the Soviet Union.
DVD release
* 2002 DVD released by RUSCICO. It is based on the shorter 182 minute version, which was edited for European release in 1975. Dubbing for DVD in three languages was made by professional actors in English, French, and Russian. Subtitles in
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* Defects on DVD include errors in sequence of scenes and wrong listing of scenes in the DVD cover booklet. There are some mistakes and discrepancies between English and Russian versions of the DVD.
References
External links
* {{IMDb title, 0066969, Dauria
* Filming Dauria scenes in
Siberia
Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a part of ...