"...and QUIET FLOWS THE DON", a great film belongs to the best tradition of the Epics, is bound to join other evergreen masterpieces in the story of cinema.

"...and QUIET FLOWS THE DON"; is based on the worldwide famous novel “…and Quiet flows the Don” by Mikhail A. Sholokhov, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

"...and QUIET FLOWS THE DON", has been realized by Madison Motion Pictures with a rich cast and a crew assembled from the best professionals in the field. To start with a protagonist Rupert Everett and then Murray Abraham (Academy Award for Amadeus), Danilo Donati, set design & production costume supervisor, winner of three Academy Awards, and the musician Luis Bacalov (Academy Award), author of the film music.

"...and QUIET FLOWS THE DON" will be released all over the world, starting 2008.

"and QUIET FLOWS THE DON" was shot in English language for the worldwide audience. The film narrates the vicissitudes of the Cossack family of Melechov, which is living on the banks of the Don river and in the first place of the second son and protagonist (Rupert Everett) and of his overwhelming love for Aksinia (Delphine Forest in her best interpretation).
The historical scenery is one of the most troubled epochs of the contemporary history, from the turmoil of the twentieth-century till the October's Revolution in 1917 passing through the tragedy of the First World War.

"...and QUIET FLOWS THE DON" comes by full right into the glorious tradition of the Epic films based on the masterpieces of the literature screened without saving means.
For the shooting has been elaborated a complex and great organization in Russia and Ukraine (where was reconstructed completely a Cossack village on the banks of the Don river).

"...and QUIET FLOWS THE DON", with long years of preparation and pre-production and over one year of shooting, had a technical staff over 300 and thousands of extras.
The spectacular mass scenes were realized without a support of special effects and become realistic fresco on historic events which have changed the world, interlaced with the vicissitudes of love and passion, hate and revenge, defeats and victories narrating a historical epopee together with intimate and eternal epopee of the human heart.