Quiet Flows the Don

Against the backdrop of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, a young Cossack warrior navigates love, loyalty, and survival as his world transforms during the civil war that tears his homeland apart.

• Ep 1

  1.Part 1

  7.0

  07-11-200660m

  Life on the Tatarsky farm flows slowly and leisurely. The young Cossack, Grishka Melekhov, falls in love with the married beauty Aksinya. His strict father, upon learning of this,...

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• Ep 2

  2.Part 2

  7.0

  08-11-200660m

  Grigory is called up for active military service for four years. Panteley, who has come to see his son off, tries to persuade him to return to his legal wife, Natalya. Grigory's re...

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• Ep 3

  3.Part 3

  7.0

  09-11-200660m

  Natalya Melekhova gives birth to twins. Aksinya's husband, Stepan, arrives home, and soon Aksinya joins him from Yagodnoye. In late October 1917, following the overthrow of the Pro...

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• Ep 4

  4.Part 4

  7.0

  13-11-200660m

  A chance encounter with Aksinya on the river rekindles long-forgotten feelings in Grigory. After a visit home, Melekhov prepares to return to his unit, where he is to assume comman...

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• Ep 5

  5.Part 5

  7.0

  14-11-200660m

  After a short visit, Grigory is forced to leave the farmstead again. It's not easy for him to leave the dark-browed Cossack woman who holds his heart. Daria tells Natalya about her...

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• Ep 6

  6.Part 6

  7.0

  15-11-200660m

  Grief haunts the Melekhov family—Natalya dies after attempting to get rid of her child. Soon, unwilling to live with her illness, Daria drowns herself. Grigory is tormented by doub...

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• Ep 7

  7.Part 7

  7.0

  16-11-200660m

  Prokhor Zykov, returning from the front, informs Aksinya that Grigory is alive, but has defected to the Reds. Before her death, Ilyinichna blesses Dunyasha for her wedding to Koshe...

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