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And Quiet Flows the Don (1931)

And Quiet Flows the Don poster
Original title
Тихий Дон
Directed by
Olga Preobrazhenskaya
Genre
drama film, war film
Country
Soviet Union
Runtime
1h 27m
Rating
5.1 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The film shows the lives of Cossack families along the Don River before and during World War I and the Russian Revolution. It follows Grigory Melekhov, a young Cossack torn between his duty and his love for a married woman.

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What happens

And Quiet Flows the Don (Russian: Тихий Дон, romanized: Tikhiy Don, lit. 'Quiet Don') is a 1930 Soviet film directed by Ivan Pravov and Olga Preobrazhenskaya. The film is an adaptation of the first two books of the eponymous novel by Mikhail Sholokhov. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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