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Also known as Optimistic Tragedy

1963 Soviet film directed by Samson Samsonov based on the play by Vsevolod Vishnevsky

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5.2

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.

Released: 1963-06-12121 minDir: Samson SamsonovWar, Drama, History

Cast

  • Margarita Volodina as commissar
  • Boris Andreyev as vozhak
  • Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Aleksei
  • Vsevolod Sanayev as Siplyy
  • Orvo Björninen as Vainonen
  • Vsevolod Safonov as Bering

Themes

  • civil war
  • russian revolution (1917)
  • anarchism

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Ratings

IMDb

7/10

183 votes

Year
1963
Runtime
120 min
Genres
Drama, History, War

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