Desc: Tikhiy Don: Directed by Ivan Pravov, Olga Preobrazhenskaya, Mikhail Provor. With Nikolay Podgorny, Andrei Abrikosov, Emma Tsesarskaya, Raisa Puzhnaya. The first screen adaptation of an epic Russian novel about a village of Cossacks on the Don River, covering the First World War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the subsequent Civil War between Reds and Whites. The main character.an antihero,is the violent, impetuous, unreliable Melekhov.