The Cossacks

• 4.7 Drama
• 1961-08-14
• 97 minutes mins

Historical drama based on the eponymous novel by Leo Tolstoy. Junker Olenin, a representative of St.Petersburg's golden youth, is traveling from St.Petersburg to the Caucasus in search of romance. His regiment is stationed in the Cossack village. Here he falls in love with the beautiful Maryana and is ready to marry her, but she loves the Cossack Lukashka and is not going to exchange him for the master...

Starring:

Leonid Gubanov (Dmitri Olenin) Boris Andreyev (Yeroshka) Zinaida Kirienko (Maryana) Eduard Bredun (Lukashka) Boris Novikov (Nazarka) German Kachin (Vanyusha) Izabella Mehn (Ustenka) Vera Yenyutina (Maryana's mother) Konstantin Gradopolov (Beletsky) Vsevolod Safonov (Olenin's friend)

Director:

Vasily Pronin

Writer:

Viktor Shklovskiy