Dream of a Cossack (movie)
Кавалер Золотой звезды- User score: 6.2
- Production country: Soviet Union
- Producer: Yuli Raizman
- Production companies: Mosfilm
- Genre: Romance, Drama
- Release date: 7/9/1951
- Run time: 112 min.
Movie description
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.
