Quiet Flows The Don

Directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk and Sergei Bondarchuk

With Rupert Everett, Delphine Forest, F. Murray Abraham, Ben Gazzara and Lorenzo Amato

With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with earthly humor and a wealth of colorful characters. The story concerns the fluctuating fortunes of Grigory Melekhov, a young Cossack who is both a hero and a victim of the uprising.