Quiet Flows the Don

Dubbed "a Soviet 'Gone with the Wind'" by foreign critics, director Sergei Gerasimov's sweeping drama depicts the tumult of 20th-century Russia's first two decades, from World War I to the Communist Revolution, as seen through the eyes of Cossack villagers in the country's southern Don River valley. Based on Mikhail Sholokhov's Nobel Prize-winning novel, the film stars Pyotr Glebov, Elina Bystritskaya, Zinaida Kiriyenko. 5 1/2 hrs. Standard; Soundtrack: Russian; Subtitles: English. In Russian with English subtitles.