The first screen adaptation of an epic Russian novel about a village of Cossacks on the Don River, covering the last days of peace on the riverside before the beginning of the First World War.
as Pantelej Prokofievich Melekhov (as N. Podgorny)
as Grigori Pantelejevich Melekhov (as A. Abrikosov)
as Aksinya Astagova (as E. Tsesarskaya)
as Natalya Koshonova (as R. Puzhnaya)
as Petr Melekhov (as A. Gromov)
as Stepan Astakhov (as G. Kovrov)
as Daria Melekhova (as Ye. Maksimova)
as Aksinja
as Prokofij Melekhov (as V. Kovrigin)
as Garandza
as Gendarm (as L. Yurenyov)