And Quiet Flows the Don (film)

And Quiet Flows the Don
File:QuietDon1958.JPG The poster in English
Directed by	Sergei Gerasimov
Written by	Sergei Gerasimov Mikhail Sholokhov (novel)
Starring	Pyotr Glebov Elina Bystritskaya Zinaida Kiriyenko
Music by	Yuri Levitin
Cinematography	Vladimir Rapoport
Edited by	Nina Vasilyeva
Production company	Gorky Film Studio
Release dates	26 October 1957 (parts 1/2) 30 April 1958 (part 3)
Running time	330 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

And Quiet Flows the Don (Russian: Тихий Дон, translit. Tikhiy Don) is a three-part epic 1958 Soviet film directed by Sergei Gerasimov based on the novel of the same title by Mikhail Sholokhov. The first two parts of the film were released in October 1957 and the final third part in 1958. In 1958 the film won Crystal Globe award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and the Best Picture Award at the All-Union Film Festival.

Cast

• Pyotr Glebov as Grigori Melekhov
• Elina Bystritskaya as Aksiniya
• Zinaida Kiriyenko as Natalya
• Lyudmila Khityaeva as Daria Melehova
• Daniil Ilchenko as Pantelei Melekhov
• Boris Novikov as Mitka Korshunov
• Igor Dmitriev as Eugene Listnitsky
• Vadim Zakharchenko as Prokhor Zykov
• Mikhail Gluzsky as esaul Kalmykov

See also

• List of longest films by running time

External links

• And Quiet Flows the Don. Parts I and II at IMDb
• And Quiet Flows the Don. Part III at IMDb