
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