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An Optimistic Tragedy(1963)
Status: Released
Date: 1963-06-12
50%
12 Votes
Time: 2h 0m
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.
Languages: Russian.
Countries:
Soviet Union
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: An Optimistic Tragedy
Top 10 Billed Cast
Маргарита Володина
Commissar
Борис Андреев
Vozhak
Вячеслав Тихонов
Aleksei
Всеволод Санаев
Siplyy
Всеволод Сафонов
Bering
Иван Жеваго
boatswain
Даниил Нетребин
Ryaboy
Григорий Михайлов
old sailor
Пётр Соболевский
ship's doctor
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