Sovier director Sergei Bandurchuk's epic film adaptation of Mikhail Sholokov's novel Quiet Flows the Don, shot in Cossack villages along the Don in English 15 years ago and starring Rubert Everett in the main role, has finally been resurrected from limbo and completed by Bandurchuk's son Fyodor (of Ninth Division fame). I've been watching it in serialized form on Russian TV and highly recommend it, although it is being panned in Russia* and leading to lots of gay Cossack jokes given Everett's sexual orientation. It's being released in the West in a highly abridged 3-hour version. So go and get it!
* "It's not historically accurate, real Cossack women who left their heads uncovered would be killed as witches, Everett does not look like a Cossack, it was shot in English using foreign actors, blah blah blah." Talk about provincial.
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