Rent Quiet Flows the Don (2006)
2.9 of 5 from 50 ratings
2h 57min
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- Synopsis:
- This epic deals with both heroes and villains of the uprisings during WWI, the Bolshevik Revolution and the Russian Civil War. The first revolts threaten the power of the Czar Nicholas II. In the village of Tatarsjuky, on the shores of the rivers Don, lives the Cossack family of Melechov. Gregor (Rupert Everett) considers military service as the only way to find fulfilment as a man and to escape from his patriarchal family ruled by his stern father Pantaleimon (F.Murray Abraham).
- Actors:
- Rupert Everett, Delphine Forest, F. Murray Abraham, Ben Gazzara, Lorenzo Amato, Natalya Andreychenko, Mikhail Baskov, Alexander Bespalis, Alyona Bondarchuk, Sergey Bondarchuk, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Alexander Jharkov, Nikolai Karachentsov, Gennadi Karnovich-Valua, Ivan Lapikov
- Directors:
- Sergey Bondarchuk
- Producers:
- Enzo Rispoli
- Writers:
- Sergei Bondarchuk, Nicola Badalucco, Robert Balchus
- Studio:
- Arrow Films
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama, Romance
- Collections:
- Top 10 Best Last Films: World Cinema, Top Films
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Reviews (1) of Quiet Flows the Don
Cossack Sagas - Quiet Flows the Don review by CH
Rupert Everett pouts and glowers his way through this Bondarchuk film (which not surprisingly so far no-one has reviewed.) The novel Quiet Flows the Don by Sholokov about Cossack village life before the Russian Revolution is interspersed with the travails of a very mean and moody Rupert Everett, as he negotiates his way around the pitfalls and snares of love and duty. The novel itself is quite a difficult read and I’m not convinced that this interpretation by Bondarchuck won over the audiences in the same way that his epic film War and Peace did. Quiet Flows the Don isn’t quite the masterpiece of epic cinema it strives to be, with a Dr Zhivago-esque Hollywood orchestral score. However with many dramatic well choreographed horse mounted Cossack battle scenes, historically the film may well stand the test of time.
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