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An Optimistic Tragedy

Jun 12, 1963 · 2h 1m
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War
Drama
History

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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.

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CAST

Margarita Volodina
commissar
Boris Andreyev
vozhak
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Aleksei
Vsevolod Sanayev
Siplyy
Orvo Björninen
Vainonen
Vsevolod Safonov
Bering
Ivan Zhevago
boatswain
Daniil Netrebin
Ryaboy
Directed by Samson Samsonov

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Status
Released
Original language
RU
Budget
—
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Production
Mosfilm
Country
SU

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