Cossacks of the Kuban

Cossacks of the Kuban (Кубанские казаки) from Mosfilm is a color film, glorifying the life of the farmers in the kolkhoz of the Soviet Union's Kuban region, directed by Ivan Pyryev and starring Marina Ladynina, his wife at that time. The movie premiered on 26 February 1950.

Synopsis
The film is set during the early post-war years. In autumn at the inter-collective farm fair, a dashing horse breeder Nikolai (Vladlen Davydov) gets acquainted with an advanced collective farmer Dasha Shelest (Klara Luchko). Their infatuation is mutual, but the lovers, working in different farms will have to overcome the resistance of their leaders, who do not want to lose great employees. Chairman of the "Red Partisans", where Dasha works, Gordei Voron (Sergey Lukyanov) has long been fond of the chairman Galina Peresvetova (Marina Ladynina) of the "Precepts of Ilyich" collective farm where Nikolai works. But he can not muster up the courage to confess his love to her and Galina ends up having to confess first.

Cast (partial list)

 * Marina Ladynina as Galina
 * Sergei Lukyanov as Gordei Gordeyich Voron
 * Vladimir Volodin as Anton Petrovich Mudretsov
 * Yuri Lyubimov as Andrey
 * Aleksandr Khvylya as Denis Stepanovich
 * Klara Luchko as Darya Shelest
 * Ekaterina Savinova as Lubochka
 * Viktor Avdyushko as stableman
 * Valentina Telegina as Khristoforovna
 * Vladlen Davydov as Nikolai Matveyevich Kovalev

Songs (partial list)

 * Harvest (in Урожай, words by Mikhail Isakovsky and music by Isaak Dunayevsky)
 * How Have You Been, Dearest? (in Каким ты был, ditto)
 * Oh, the Kalina Flowers Are in Bloom (Ой, цветет калина, ditto)