Tikhiy Don

This is a 6 hour flick of three episodes. 1 Pre WW1, the way of life,the lives and loves of the rural Cossack village. 2 Mobilization, WW1, defeat 3 The end of WW1, revolution,chaos, civil war, changing fortunes, Bolshevik Victory. The turbulence of Cossack life during this time.A bit of propaganda,but who cares? This is the Russian Gone With the Wind.As good and maybe better. A vanished world. I had seen it before,but this adaptation was better.Maybe the other was edited different or the subtitles are better? The flow of the story was better.Several characters from the home village appear again and again during the film. The main character is Grigory, a young rather wild Cossack, his next door married lover, his family selected wife.His large family gets a lot of time in this.A rather boring life is soon interrupted by war,revolution,counter revolution , Bolsheviks, white Russians,bandits and Communists. As things change, Grigory switches sides, his family and the Cossacks way of life is ruined. He loses everything. Well filmed,well acted,excellently scored, a cast of thousands.A classic Russian epic. Well worth watching. Epic War, history and love.You can't beat the combination.