An Optimistic Tragedy

Jun 12, 1963

2h 0m

★ 5.0

Overview

1918 year. A woman commissar has been appointed from the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party to the Russian warship Gromoboi, which is ruled by anarchist sailors. The leader of the ship is the anarchist Vozhak. The Commissioner was instructed to reorganize the naval detachment into the First Sailor Regiment. She faces a difficult task: to win the authority of the sailors and eradicate anarchy. Of the remaining officers on the ship — lieutenant Bering, who served in the tsarist fleet on the battleship "Emperor Paul I". He must become the commander and, together with the sent commissar, lead the regiment to the front in the Black Sea region.

Genres

War

Drama

History

Production Companies

Mosfilm

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Cast

Commissar

Margarita Volodina

Vozhak

Boris Andreyev

Aleksei

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Siplyy

Vsevolod Sanayev

Vainonen

Orvo Björninen

Bering

Vsevolod Safonov

boatswain

Ivan Zhevago

Ryaboy

Daniil Netrebin

old sailor

Grigory Mikhaylov

ship's doctor

Pyotr Sobolevsky

Vozhachok

Erast Garin

first officer

Oleg Strizhenov

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