And Quiet Flows the Don
Gerasimov started his film industry career as an actor in 1924. At first he appeared in Kozintsev and Trauberg films, such as "The Overcoat" and "The New Babylon". Later, he was commissioned to produce screen versions of the literary classics of socialist realism. His epic screenings of Alexander Fadeyev's "The Young Guard" (1948) and Mikhail Sholokhov's "And Quiet Flows the Don" (1957–58) were extolled by the authorities as exemplary.