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.
Stars: Sergey Bondarchuk, Anatoli Chemodurov, Kira Kanayeva, Boris Chirkov, Nikolai Komissarov, Vladimir Ratomsky
Crew: Yuli Raizman (Director), Sergei Urusevsky (Director of Photography), Tikhon Khrennikov (Original Music Composer), Boris Chirskov (Screenplay), Семен Бабаевский (Screenplay)
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Pусский
Studio: Mosfilm
Runtime: 112 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jul 09, 1951
IMDb: 4.8
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