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And Quiet Flows the Don (1958 film)

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Natalia Melekhova, who had become pregnant with Grigori's child, tries to abort her pregnancy, saying that she "doesn't want to give birth to Grigori anymore." She dies as a result and the child is born anyway, and is named Mikhail (Mishatka as the diminutive). Meanwhile, at the headquarters of the
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Grigori returns to his father and distributes gifts, but even here the Cossacks have no unity. Grigori is leaning toward the idea of 'Soviet power,' but his father wants nothing to do with it. The power is changing, and Grigori Melekhov, with shoulder straps and royal medals, observes the execution
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The young Cossack Grigori Melekhov is in love with a married Cossack woman called Aksinya Astakhova and she reciprocates, but those around him are against it, viewing it as a shameful union. The situation is aggravated after the return of Aksinya's husband from military training, and the husband
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of the Whites takes place on a steamer. Life on the Tatarsky farm goes on, but tensions remain among the Cossacks with Grigori's mother unable to forgive the neighbors who killed her son. A Red Cossack responds, saying that "all the murderers are in the war," including her other son Grigori. A
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Daria, the widow of Peter, Grigori's brother, kills a captive fellow villager from the Reds who had participated in the murder of her husband. Subsequently, for this act of retaliation, she receives encouragement from the command of the White Guards in the presence of a British officer.
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for bravery. Aksinya loses her child and is comforted by an estate owner's son. Returning on hospital leave, Grigori finds out that Aksinya was unfaithful to him. In a fit of jealousy, he beats the man and Aksinya with a whip, after which he returns to his father and wife Natalia.
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and is in command of a cavalry regiment. Grigori Melekhov arrives. He is warned that the Reds have come to arrest Grigori, and so he runs away from the farm. Having stumbled upon some anti-Soviet rebels, Grigori chooses to leave them as well. He tries to leave with Aksinya to the
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Part Three opens up with Grigori on the Tatarsky farm against the background of flowering trees, hearing the cries of his wife Natalia. At a watering hole by the river, he meets Aksinya with buckets and admits out-loud that he cannot throw her out of his heart.
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of Red Cossacks, recalling in his mind Podtyolkov's massacre of Chernetsov's Cossacks. The Bolshevik Shtokman demands the arrest of Grigori, but Grigori manages to escape. The Reds capture and shoot Peter, Gregory's brother.
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and the personal tragedy of the protagonist, Grigori Melekhov (anglicised Gregory Melehoff). The protagonist is described by Gerasimov as in fact "a man without a road, doomed by history."
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beats his wife. Grigori is wed to another woman, Natalia Korshunova. Grigori and Aksinya decide to run away from their families, but their new life is cut short by the start of the
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Grigori, at the head of a hundred Cossacks, cuts down revolutionary sailors in an attack. However, his mind remains cloudy from the war at the front and the ensuing war at home.
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A few years later in 1916, Russian officers in a dugout are playing cards and discussing the war under the distant roar of cannonade. Their soldiers are reading an
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wounded (with an amputated right hand) Cossack Proshka arrives at the farm, telling Aksinya that Grigori in Novorossiysk has joined the
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and Chernetsov's 'White' Cossacks; the Whites lose, and Podtyolkov cuts down the captive Chernetsov with his sword.
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or whether they can cope on their own. Melekhov witness two groups of Cossacks fight, Podtyolkov's
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And Quiet Flows the Don (film)

Sergei Gerasimov
Sergei Gerasimov
Mikhail Sholokhov
Pyotr Glebov
Elina Bystritskaya
Lyudmila Khityaeva
Vladimir Rapoport
Yuri Levitin
Gorky Film Studio
‹See Tfd›
Russian
translit.
epic film
Sergei Gerasimov
the novel of the same title
Mikhail Sholokhov
World War I
October Revolution
Russian Civil War
Don Cossacks
First World War
Imperial Army
Austro-Hungarians
St. George's Cross
anti-war
poison gas
deposition
Nicholas II

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