A Cossack father loves his son enough to destroy him. Epic Soviet-era tragedy with teeth.
In war against the Poles, the leader Cossack sees itself betrayed by one of his threads, been in love the girl of an enemy.
Production
Massive 1930s cavalry charges shot with genuine military coordination.
Acting
Harry Baur's volcanic patriarch—tragically his last major role before Nazi imprisonment.
Director
Alexis Granowsky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gogol's 1835 novella was Russian imperial propaganda reclaiming Ukrainian Cossack history; this French-Soviet co-production weaponized it differently for 1936 European tensions.
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