Cossacks of the Kuban

1950 film

Marina Ladynina
Sergei Lukyanov
Yuri Lyubimov
Aleksandr Khvylya
Klara Luchko

CinematographyValentin PavlovEdited byAnna KulganekMusic byIsaak Dunayevsky

Production
company

Mosfilm

Release date

1950

Running time

112 minutesCountrySoviet UnionLanguageRussian

Cossacks of the Kuban (Russian: Кубанские казаки, romanized: Kubanskie kazaki) from Mosfilm is a color film, glorifying the life of the farmers in the kolkhoz of the Soviet Union's Kuban region, directed by Ivan Pyryev and starring Marina Ladynina, his wife at that time.^[1] The movie premiered on 26 February 1950.

Synopsis

The film is set during the early post-war years. In autumn at the inter-collective farm fair, a dashing horse breeder Nikolai (Vladlen Davydov) gets acquainted with an advanced collective farmer Dasha Shelest (Klara Luchko). Their infatuation is mutual, but the lovers, working in different farms will have to overcome the resistance of their leaders, who do not want to lose great employees. Chairman of the "Red Partisans", where Dasha works, Gordei Voron (Sergey Lukyanov) has long been fond of the chairman Galina Peresvetova (Marina Ladynina) of the "Precepts of Ilyich" collective farm where Nikolai works. But he can not muster up the courage to confess his love to her and Galina ends up having to confess first.

Cast (partial list)

Marina Ladynina as Galina
Sergei Lukyanov as Gordei Gordeyich Voron
Vladimir Volodin as Anton Petrovich Mudretsov
Yuri Lyubimov as Andrey
Aleksandr Khvylya as Denis Stepanovich
Klara Luchko as Darya Shelest
Ekaterina Savinova as Lubochka
Viktor Avdyushko as stableman
Valentina Telegina as Khristoforovna
Vladlen Davydov as Nikolai Matveyevich Kovalev

Songs (partial list)

Harvest (in Russian: Урожай, words by Mikhail Isakovsky and music by Isaak Dunayevsky)
How Have You Been, Dearest? (in Russian: Каким ты был, ditto)
Oh, the Kalina Flowers Are in Bloom (Russian: Ой, цветет калина, ditto)