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An Optimistic Tragedy (1963)
Directed by Samson Samsonov
War, Drama, History · 2h 01m
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.
Cast
Margarita Volodina
commissar
Boris Andreyev
vozhak
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Aleksei
Vsevolod Sanayev
Siplyy
Vsevolod Safonov
Bering
Ivan Zhevago
boatswain
Daniil Netrebin
Ryaboy
Grigory Mikhaylov
old sailor
Pyotr Sobolevsky
ship's doctor
Erast Garin
vozhachok
Oleg Strizhenov
first officer
Crew
- Director
- Samson Samsonov
- Writer
- Sofiya Vishnevetskaya, Samson Samsonov
- Director of Photography
- Vladimir Monakhov
- Original Music Composer
- Vasily Dekhteryov
- Editor
- Aleksandra Kamagorova
Details
- Original title
- Оптимистическая трагедия
- Release date
- 1963-06-12
- Runtime
- 2h 01m
- Genres
- War, Drama, History
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- Mosfilm