| Cossacks of the Kuban | |
| Director: | Ivan Pyryev |
| Music: | Isaak Dunayevsky |
| Cinematography: | Valentin Pavlov |
| Editing: | Anna Kulganek |
| Studio: | Mosfilm |
| Runtime: | 112 minutes |
| Country: | Soviet Union |
| Language: | Russian |
Cossacks of the Kuban 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.[1] The movie premiered on 26 February 1950.
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.