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Virgin Soil Upturned (1959 film)

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Virgin Soil Upturned
Russian: Поднятая целина
Directed byAleksandr Ivanov
Written by
Produced byMark Ryss
Starring
CinematographyVyacheslav Fastovich
Edited byN. Nikolaeva
Music byOleg Karavaychuk
Yuri Levitin
Production
company
Release date
  • 1959 (1959)
Running time
278 min.
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Virgin Soil Upturned (Russian: Поднятая целина, romanizedPodnyataya tselina) is a 1959 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Ivanov.[1][2] Based on Mikhail Sholokhov's novel.

Plot

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The film takes place in the 1930s. The film tells about the worker Davydov, who is sent to the Cossack farm to help the Don Cossacks transition to collective forms of farming and tries to organize a collective farm there by their own methods, coming into conflict with the leader of the local party.[3]

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