Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov (1905–1984) was a Soviet writer and Nobel Prize laureate in literature. He was born on May 11 (24), 1905, in the village of Kruzhilin. After moving to Moscow and failing to enter a preparatory workers’ faculty, he had to try various manual jobs. His first works were published in 1923, and in 1924 his short story The Birthmark, from the Don cycle, appeared in print. Sholokhov gained wide recognition with his epic about the Don Cossacks during the revolution and civil war — the novel And Quiet Flows the Don (1928–1932), which earned him the Nobel Prize in 1965. In the final years of his life, Sholokhov continued writing essays and articles, and he met with young authors. He passed away in 1984 in the stanitsa of Veshenskaya.
🎬 And Quiet Flows the Don. Part II
Director: Sergey Gerasimov
Starring: Pyotr Glebov, Elina Bystritskaya
1957 | 132 min.
French subtitles
Adapted from Sholokhov’s immortal novel, regarded as one of the greatest works of world literature, the film tells the story of the tragic upheavals that befell Russia in the early 20th century — the destinies broken by the First World War and the Revolution, the collapse of traditions and ideals of the Don Cossacks, and the personal tragedy of the main character, Grigory Melekhov.
