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.
Nikolay Podgorny
as Pantelej Prokofievich Melekhov (as N. Podgorny)
Андрей Абрикосов
as Grigori Pantelejevich Melekhov (as A. Abrikosov)
Emma Tsesarskaya
as Aksinya Astagova (as E. Tsesarskaya)
Raisa Puzhnaya
as Natalya Koshonova (as R. Puzhnaya)
Alexandr Gromov
as Petr Melekhov (as A. Gromov)
Georgi Kovrov
as Stepan Astakhov (as G. Kovrov)
Yelena Maksimova
as Daria Melekhova (as Ye. Maksimova)
S. Churakovskaya
as Aksinja
Vasili Kovrigin
as Prokofij Melekhov (as V. Kovrigin)
Ivan Bykov
as Garandza
Leonid Yurenev
as Gendarm (as L. Yurenyov)
