The Cossacks (1961)
Казаки
Junker Olenin, a representative of St. Petersburg's golden youth, is traveling from St. Petersburg to the Caucasus in search of romance. His regiment is stationed in the Cossack village. Here he falls in love with the beautiful Maryana and is ready to marry her, but she loves the Cossack Lukashka and is not going to exchange him for the master.
- Date of release
- 1961-08-14
- TMDB
- 5.2 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Vasily Pronin
Casting
- Leonid Gubanov — Dmitri Olenin
- Boris Andreyev — Yeroshka
- Zinaida Kirienko — Maryana
- Eduard Bredun — Lukashka
- Boris Novikov — Nazarka
- German Kachin — Vanyusha
- Izabella Mehn — Ustenka
- Vera Yenyutina — Maryana's mother
- Konstantin Gradopolov — Beletsky
- Vsevolod Safonov — Olenin's friend
- Leonid Topchiyev — Olenin's friend
- Aleksandra Danilova — Lukashka's mother
Interesting facts
The Cossacks is a 1961 Soviet romantic drama film directed by Vasili Pronin. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on Leo Tolstoy's 1864 novel of the same name.
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