The Cossacks (film)
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The Cossacks is a 1961
Soviet
drama film
directed by Vasili Pronin. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival
. It is based on the novel of the same name
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1961 in film
The year 1961 in film involved some significant events, with West Side Story winning 10 Academy Awards.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:* Atlantis, the Lost ContinentB...
Soviet
Cinema of the Soviet Union
The cinema of the Soviet Union, not to be confused with "Cinema of Russia" despite Russian language films being predominant in both genres, includes several film contributions of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union reflecting elements of their pre-Soviet culture, language and history,...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Vasili Pronin. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival
1961 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*Jean Giono *Sergei Yutkevich *Pedro Armendáriz *Luigi Chiarini *Claude Mauriac *Edouard Molinaro *Jean Paulhan *Raoul Ploquin...
. It is based on the novel of the same name
The Cossacks (novel)
The Cossacks is a short novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1863 in the popular literary magazine The Russian Messenger. The Nobel prize-winning Russian writer Ivan Bunin gave the work great praise, calling it one of the finest in the Russian language....
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Cast
- Leonid Gubanov - Dmitri Olenin
- Boris AndreyevBoris AndreyevBoris Fyodorovich Andreyev was a Soviet actor. He appeared in 51 films between 1939 and 1982.-Biography:Boris Andreyev was born 9 February 1915 in Saratov, Russian Empire to a family of workers. His childhood and youth years were spent in Atkarsk, Saratov Governorate...
- Eroshka - Zinaida Kiriyenko - Maryana
- Eduard Bredun - Lukashka
- Boris Novikov - Nazarka
- Vera Yenyutina
- Konstantin Gradopolov
- German Kachin - Vanyusha
- I. Men - Ustenka
- Vsevolod Safonov
- Aleksandra Danilova
- Artur Nishchenkin
- Leonid Parkhomenko
- Ivan Lyubeznov
- Anatoli PapanovAnatoli PapanovAnatoli Dmitrievich Papanov was a popular Soviet film and theatre actor.Papanov starred in some of the best and well-known Soviet films, often together with his friend, Andrei Mironov. Mostly known for his great performances in comedies, he also had serious and dramatic roles, such as that of the...