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5.9An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
Cast
- Boris Babochkin as Chapayev
- Leonid Kmit as Petka
- Varvara Myasnikova as Anka
- Boris Blinov as Furmanov
- Illarion Pevtsov as Borozdin
- Nikolai Simonov as Zhikharev
Themes
- joseph stalin
- machine gun
- siberia
- communist propaganda
- russian civil war (1918-21)
- red army
- summary execution
- death of hero
- soviet union history
- psychological warfare
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Ratings
IMDb
7/10
1,461 votes
- Year
- 1934
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Genres
- Biography, Drama, History
- Awards
- 2 wins
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Georgi Vasilyev , Sergei Vasilyev
- Based on
- Чапаев by Dmitry Furmanov
- Starring
- Boris Babochkin , Boris Blinov , Varvara Myasnikova , Leonid Kmit
- Music by
- Gavriil Popov
- Production company
- Lenfilm
- Release date
- 1934 ( 1934 )
- Running time
- 91 minutes
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Language
- Russian
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 95
- FilmAffinity ID
- 337341
- Image
- Чапаев кадр Бабочкин.jpg
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- Commons category
- Chapayev (film)
- publication date
- 1935-01-14
- title
- Чапаев
Sources (2)
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Article
Chapaev (Russian: Чапаев, IPA: [tɕɪˈpaɪf]) is a 1934 Soviet biographical war film, directed by the Vasilyev brothers for Lenfilm. A heavily-fictionalised biography of Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev (1887–1919), a notable Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War, it is based on the novel of the same name by Dmitry Furmanov, a Russian writer and Bolshevik commissar who fought together with Chapayev.
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin considered Chapaev to be the best film in Soviet cinematography and watched it more than 30 times between 1934 and 1936. President Vladimir Putin also proclaimed Chapaev to be his favorite film.