Kavalier zolotoy zvezdy 1951

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.

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 

• Dream of a Cossack