The narrative spans from roughly 1914 to the early 1920s, a period marked by World War I , the Bolshevik Revolution , and the Russian Civil War .
As the Russian monarchy collapses, the Don Cossacks are forced to choose between the Red Army (Bolsheviks) and the White Army (Monarchists/Counter-revolutionaries).
It provides a detailed cinematic account of the unique heritage and traditional warrior-farmer lifestyle of the Don Cossacks . Technical Details of this Version
Grigory is caught in a scandalous romance with Aksinia, the wife of a fellow soldier, while also being tied to his own wife, Natalia.
Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Mikhail Sholokhov, the story is a sweeping war epic set in the Don River valley of southern Russia during the early 20th century.
