http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmTYTHPmkIk...&playnext=1

The above link is to a Youtube Part 1 of the Moscow, 1957 colour movie of the famous Soviet novel "Quiet Flows the Don" The movie focuses on the lives and hardships of common people especially Cossacks and how the war and Civil War impacted on their lives.

John
Toronto

Just a further quick note after watching several of the latter episodes: Part 8 has a pretty good if not excellent depicition of Russian field command "incompetence" (per Soviet view of course! circa 1959) and a very good if not excellent depiction of a Don Cossack mounted attack on retreating Austro-Hungarian troops in Galicia (Roman Catholic cemetery is shown as is a town that the Cossacks gallop into). Moreover, the overall production of this film stands up to anything that Hollywood produced at the time or since. Good script, acting, cinematography and direction make this a very good must see recommended film.