Virgin Soil Upturned (1959 film)

Virgin Soil Upturned (Russian: Поднятая целина, romanized: Podnyataya tselina) is a 1959 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Ivanov.^[1][2] Based on Mikhail Sholokhov's novel.

Virgin Soil Upturned
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Russian: Поднятая целина
Directed by	Aleksandr Ivanov
Written by	Yuriy Lukin Fyodor Shakhmagonov Mikhail Sholokhov
Produced by	Mark Ryss
Starring	Yevgeny Matveyev Pyotr Chernov Pyotr Glebov Lyudmila Khityaeva Leonid Kmit
Cinematography	Vyacheslav Fastovich
Edited by	N. Nikolaeva
Music by	Oleg Karavaychuk Yuri Levitin
Production company	Lenfilm
Release date	1959 (1959)
Running time	278 min.
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Plot

The film takes place in the 1930s. The film tells about the worker Davydov, who is sent to the Cossack farm to help the Don Cossacks transition to collective forms of farming and tries to organize a collective farm there by their own methods, coming into conflict with the leader of the local party.^[3]

Cast

• Pyotr Chernov as Semyon Davydov
• Yevgeny Matveyev as Makar Nagulnov
• Fyodor Shmakov as Andrey Razmyotnov
• Vladimir Dorofeyev as Grandpa Shchukar
• Lyudmila Khityaeva as Lushka
• Pyotr Glebov as Aleksandr Polovtsev
• Viktor Chekmaryov as Yakov Ostrovnov
• Iosif Kutyansky as Kondrat Maydannikov
• Leonid Kmit as Grigoriy Bannik
• Oleg Yaroshenko as Timofey Rvanyy^[4]
• Andrei Abrikosov as the blacksmith Ippolit Sidorovich Shaly
• Nikolay Kryuchkov as Ustin Mikhailovich Rykalin
• Yevgeni Lebedev as Agafon Dubtsov
• Oleg Basilashvili as Cossack
• Gennadi Nilov as episode
• Nikolai Kryukov as Tit Borodin