"The first screen adaptation of an epic Russian novel about a village of Cossacks on the Don River, covering the last days of peace on the riverside before the beginning of the First World War."
Nikolay Podgorny
as Pantelej Prokofievich Melekhov
Andrei Abrikosov
as Grigori Pantelejevich Melekhov
Emma Tsesarskaya
as Aksinya Astagova
Raisa Puzhnaya
as Natalya Koshonova
Alexandr Gromov
as Petr Melekhov
Georgi Kovrov
as Stepan Astakhov
Elena Maksimova
as Daria Melekhova
S. Churakovskaya
as Aksinja
Vasiliy Kovrigin
as Prokofij Melekhov
Ivan Bykov
as Garandza
Leonid Yurenyov
as Gendarm
Gyulbike Shcherbatova
as
Sergey Churakovskiy
as Yevgeniy Listnitskiy
Vyacheslav Novikov
as Korshunov
Galli Slavatinskaya
as Turkish wife
Antonin Pankryshev
as Imperial family member
Sofya Levitina
as Natalya's mother
Olga Preobrazhenskaya
Writer
Mikhail Sholokhov
Novel
Boris Epshtejn
Camera Operator
Ivan Pravov
Mikhail Provor
Nikolai Borovishki
Assistant Director
Dmitri Kolupayev
Production Design
Dmitriy Feldman
Director of Photography
Director