In the azure steppe

Three novellas based on M. Sholokhov's early stories about the first years of the formation of Soviet power on the Don. (1) “Koloverť”. Two Cossack brothers and their elderly father fight for the Bolsheviks, but when only Ignat and his father return to their White-held stanitsa, their third brother betrays them, sealing their fate by handing them over for execution. (2) “Chervotočina”. Idealistic Stepan joins the Komsomol against his wealthy Cossack family’s wishes, but when two oxen he lends to a poor neighbor vanish, his enraged father and brother beat both Stepan and the neighbor to death. (3) “Prodkomissar”. Commissar Ignat Bodiagin is charged with requisitioning grain for the Red Army, only to find his own father condemned for hoarding; he must preside over his execution and soon dies himself leading the resisting Cossacks away from the grain convoy.

• Valeri LonskoyDirector
• Oleg BondarevDirector
• Vitaly KoltsovDirector
• Oleg BondarevWriter
• Vladimir ShamshurinWriter
• Vladimir ShamshurinDirector
• Yuriy LukinWriter
• Valentin PopovWriter
• Valeri LonskoyWriter
• Mikhail ZivOriginal Music Composer
• Nikolai SidelnikovOriginal Music Composer

• Valentina BerezutskayaCast
• Nadezhda FedosovaCast
• Yevgeni GerasimovCast
• Zinaida KirienkoCast
• Pyotr KononykhinCast
• Pavel KormuninCast
• Ivan KosykhCast
• Vladimir KozelCast
• Yevgeni LebedevCast
• Grigory MikhaylovCast
• Yuriy NazarovCast
• Daniil NetrebinCast