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.
as Semyon Tutarinov
as Semyon Goncharenko
as Irina Lyubasheva
as Kondratyev
as Fyodor Lukich Khokhlakov
as Stepan Petrovich Ragulin
as Artamashov
as Boichenko
as Anfisa
as Rubstov-Yennitsky
as Marfa Lubasheva
as Timofey Ilyich
as Nenashev
as Vasilisa Nilovna
as Viktor Grachev
as Agriculturist
