Cossacks of the Kuban

Cossacks of the Kuban
Directed by	Ivan Pyryev
Written by	Nikolai Pogodin
Starring	Marina Ladynina Sergei Lukyanov Yuri Lyubimov Aleksandr Khvylya Klara Luchko Viktor Avdyushko
Music by	Isaak Dunayevsky
Cinematography	Valentin Pavlov
Edited by	Anna Kulganek
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	1950
Running time	112 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Cossacks of the Kuban (Russian: Кубанские казаки, translit. Kubanskie kazaki) from Mosfilm (1950) is a color film, glorifying the life of the farmers in the kolkhoz of the Soviet Union's Kuban region, directed by Ivan Pyryev and starring Marina Ladynina, his wife at that time.

The film is set during the early post-war years. In autumn at the inter-collective farm fair, a dashing horse breeder Nikolai (Vladlen Davydov) gets acquainted with an advanced collective farmer Dasha Shelest (Klara Luchko). Their infatuation is mutual, but the lovers, working in different farms will have to overcome the resistance of their leaders, who do not want to lose great employees. Chairman of the "Red Partisans", where Dasha works, Gordei Voron (Sergey Lukyanov) has long been fond of the chairman Galina Peresvetova (Marina Ladynina) of the "Precepts of Ilyich" collective farm where Nikolai works. But he can not muster up the courage to confess his love to her and Galina ends up having to confess first.