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The 55th Anniversary of Shooting the Film “The Quiet Don ”was Marked in Dichensky Village

The festival “Characters of M.A.Sholokhov in Screen Version” devoted to the 55^th anniversary of shooting the film “The Quiet Don” was held on August, 18, in Dichensky Village of the Kamensk District.

The participants of the event were welcomed by the director of National M.A.Sholokhov Museum-Reserve A.M.Sholokhov. He said: “The shooting of the film in those distant years has shown, that we are not just fellow countrymen, but kindred spirits as well, possessing a common understanding of the Cossack life tenor, which was brilliantly depicted in Sholokhov’s inimitable lines!”

More than 7000 people came to the film jubilee festival to return half a century back and call to memory, how, in 1957, the famous Soviet filmmaker S.A.Gherasimov shot his well-known film “The Quiet Don”. The film shooting was joined not only by the villagers, but also by the people of all the Kamensk District.

The guests of the event enjoyed a Cossack wedding according to old customs, a wedding dinner with the tables laden with dishes, folk songs and dances. A village Cossack man and woman performed a scene of meeting of Grigory and Aksiniya. The amateur groups of the Kamensk District entertained the guests with merry Cossack songs.

The wide celebration of the 55^th anniversary of shooting the feature film “The Quiet Don” indicates the intransient interest of the contemporaries for the history of their homeland, the work of the outstanding writer M.A.Sholokhov and a screen version of his books.

Tatiyana Krikun