Dauria (film)

Dauria
Directed by	Viktor Tregubovich
Written by
Starring	Vitali Solomin Petr Shelokhonov Yefim Kopelyan Vasily Shukshin Yury Solomin
Music by	Gennady Portnov
Cinematography	Yevgeny Mezentsev
Production company	Lenfilm
Distributed by	RUSCICO
Release date	1971
Running time	182 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Dauria (Russian: Даурия) is a Soviet 1971 historical action/drama set in Siberia, Russia. Adapted from the novel of the same name by and directed by Viktor Tregubovich.

While the movie was criticized by some Soviet critics for its historical inaccuracies, its epic scope and intense battle scenes won wide praise and has been credited with affecting the political landscape of Siberian Russia.

Epic film about traditional life of Cossacks in the Siberian province of Dauria at the time of the communist revolution. Focused on a Cossack village that is living like one big family under the guidance of a strong leader - Ataman (Kopelyan).

Young Cossack Roman Ulybin (V. Solomin) is in love with beautiful Dashutka (Golovina). Roman is asking his father, Severian Ulybin (Shelokhonov), to send a Matchmaker before it's too late. But a wealthy crook has already hired the Matchmaker, and his son gets married at the lavish traditional wedding with singing, dancing and drinking in the Russian style.

So, frustrated Roman Ulybin leaves his father's home to follow his big brother Vasili, a Communist leader who promises happiness after the revolution. But, after the revolution, people suffer a cascade of troubles. Good old traditional life is destroyed by chaos, lawlesness and crime. Greed and envy blinds many people, and they forget their good traditions and life as good neighbors. Cossack leader Ataman is brutally beaten and humiliated. Roman's father, Severian, is murdered in a wrongful dispute, and Roman is too late to reconcile with his father.