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An Optimistic Tragedy

1963 • 2h1m War, Drama, History

Rating

4.9/10

Popularity

1

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.

Details

Director

Samson Samsonov

Screenplay

Sofiya Vishnevetskaya

Samson Samsonov

Cast

Margarita Volodina

Boris Andreyev

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Release date

6/12/1963

Status

Released

Origin country

SU

Vote count

12