And Quiet Flows the Don (1957)

Original title

Тихий Дон

Directed by

Sergei Gerasimov

Genre

drama film, war film, epic film, historical drama, romance film

Country

Soviet Union

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 39 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Cossack man named Grigori Melekhov lives through World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the civil war that follows. His personal life and community fall apart as history sweeps him along.

epicmelancholicbleakhistoricalslow-pacedtragicwar-tornintimate

What happens

And Quiet Flows the Don (Russian: Тихий Дон, translit. Tikhiy Don) is a three-part Soviet epic film directed by Sergei Gerasimov based on the novel of the same title by Mikhail Sholokhov. The first two parts of the film were released in October 1957 and the final third part in 1958. The film tells the story of Russia's involvement in the World War I, the October Revolution, the Russian Civil War, the fate of ordinary people, the crumbling ideals of the Don Cossacks and the personal tragedy of the protagonist, Grigori Melekhov (anglicised Gregory Melehoff). The protagonist is described by Gerasimov as in fact "a man without a road, doomed by history." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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