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Sedykh (Ñåäûõ) Konstantin Fyodorovich
(1908—1979)
Russian writer, author of Novel «Dauria» and screenplay of film with same name. «Dauria» is an Russian 1971 historical action/drama set in Siberia. It was directed by Viktor Tregubovich.
While the movie was criticized 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.
Young Cossack Roman Ulybin is in love with beautiful Dashutka. Roman is asking his father, Severian Ulybin, 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 late to reconcile with his father.
Communism makes no happy end.
Russia, 2008.01.20, 
Irkutsk. Konstantin Sedykh
Russia, 2008, 
Konstantin Sedykh
