Dream of a Cossack

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.

• Yuli RaizmanDirector
• Tikhon KhrennikovOriginal Music Composer
• Boris ChirskovScreenplay

• Sergey BondarchukSemyon Tutarinov
• Anatoli ChemodurovSemyon Goncharenko
• Kira KanayevaIrina Lyubasheva
• Boris ChirkovKondratyev
• Nikolai KomissarovFyodor Lukich Khokhlakov
• Vladimir RatomskyStepan Petrovich Ragulin
• Nikolai GritsenkoArtamashov
• Ivan PereverzevBoichenko
• Tamara NosovaAnfisa
• Stepan KayukovRubstov-Yennitsky
• Sergei TroitskyCast
• Aleksandra PanovaMarfa Lubasheva