Tikhiy Don) is a three-part Soviet epic film directed by Sergei Gerasimov based on the novel of the same title by Mikhail Sholokhov.

Back home, at a meeting of the villagers, they announce the deposition of Emperor Nicholas II and the transfer of power to the Provisional Committee of the State Duma.

Yesaul Kalmykov advocates joining General Kornilov's forces and restore order in Russia, while the cornet Bunchuk wants to defend the Revolution.

Grigori finds himself in a full room with portraits of Karl Marx and red banners, where the fight with General Kaledin, a leader in the White Army, is discussed.

Part Three opens up with Grigori on the Tatarsky farm against the background of flowering trees, hearing the cries of his wife Natalia.

Daria, the widow of Peter, Grigori's brother, kills a captive fellow villager from the Reds who had participated in the murder of her husband.

Meanwhile, at the headquarters of the White Don Army in Balashov, Grigori remains unaware of his son's birth and drinks cognac with other officers.

When the Whites retreat, Grigori takes Aksinya with him, but when she gets sick in the winter, he is forced to leave her in the care of a peasant family.

Life on the Tatarsky farm goes on, but tensions remain among the Cossacks with Grigori's mother unable to forgive the neighbors who killed her son.

Throwing his weapons into the river, Grigori returns to his native farm and hugs his son from Natalia, Mishatka, who is now a few years old.