Virgin Soil Upturned (1959 film)
| Virgin Soil Upturned | |
|---|---|
| Russian: Поднятая целина | |
| Directed by | Aleksandr Ivanov |
| Written by | |
| Produced by | Mark Ryss |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Vyacheslav Fastovich |
| Edited by | N. Nikolaeva |
| Music by | Oleg Karavaychuk Yuri Levitin |
Production company | |
Release date | 1959 |
Running time | 278 min. |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Virgin Soil Upturned (Russian: Поднятая целина, romanized: Podnyataya tselina) is a 1959 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Ivanov.[1][2] Based on Mikhail Sholokhov's novel.
Plot[edit]
The film takes place in the 1930s. The film tells about the worker Davydov, who is sent to the Cossack farm to help the Don Cossacks transition to collective forms of farming and tries to organize a collective farm there by their own methods, coming into conflict with the leader of the local party.[3]
Cast[edit]
- Pyotr Chernov as Semyon Davydov
- Yevgeny Matveyev as Makar Nagulnov
- Fyodor Shmakov as Andrey Razmyotnov
- Vladimir Dorofeyev as Grandpa Shchukar
- Lyudmila Khityaeva as Lushka
- Pyotr Glebov as Aleksandr Polovtsev
- Viktor Chekmaryov as Yakov Ostrovnov
- Iosif Kutyansky as Kondrat Maydannikov
- Leonid Kmit as Grigoriy Bannik
- Oleg Yaroshenko as Timofey Rvanyy[4]
- Andrei Abrikosov as the blacksmith Ippolit Sidorovich Shaly
- Nikolay Kryuchkov as Ustin Mikhailovich Rykalin
- Yevgeni Lebedev as Agafon Dubtsov
- Oleg Basilashvili as Cossack
- Gennadi Nilov as episode
- Nikolai Kryukov as Tit Borodin
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