One of the most
significant works of world and Russian literature in the 20th century, “And
Quiet Flows the Don” by Mikhail Shokolov is one of the most insightful
stories of geopolitics, World War One, civil war, love, family, friendship, idealism,
classism, and clientelism ever written. This historical novel depicting the lives
and tribulations of Don Cossacks during the First World War, the Russian
Revolution, and the Russian Civil War, conflicts that devasted this group more
than any other of the Russian Empire, won
Mikhail Sholokhov the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965. This fine piece
of writing brings to life the different angles of conflict in ways that few
other works can compare to.
This 1957-1958 Soviet
adaption for the screen comes with English subtitles and is third in four
adaptions to the screen that has been made, with the last one done more
comprehensively in 2015 as a 14-part TV-series in Russian without English subtitles.
