Dream of a Cossack

Release Date: 1951-07-09

Overview: 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.

Rating: 5.4 / 10

Cast

Sergey Bondarchuk

as Semyon Tutarinov

Anatoli Chemodurov

as Semyon Goncharenko

Kira Kanayeva

as Irina Lyubasheva

Boris Chirkov

as Kondratyev

Nikolai Komissarov

as Fyodor Lukich Khokhlakov