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An Optimistic Tragedy
Genres
WarDramaHistory
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.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
120 min
Release Date
1963-06-12
Status
Released
Original Language
Russian
Vote Count
12
Vote Average
5
Cast
Meet the talented actors who bring the movie to life.
Margarita Volodina
Commissar
Boris Andreyev
Vozhak
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Aleksei
Vsevolod Sanayev
Siplyy
Orvo Björninen
Vainonen
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
Gleb Strizhenov
second officer
Aleksey Glazyrin
presenter
Valentin Belokhvostik
presenter
Iosif Vankov
tattooed sailor
Veronika Buzhinskaya
woman in black
Viktor Shulgin
tall sailor
Ivan Bychkov
sailor
Ivan Bondar
sailor
Vladimir Grave
one-eyed anarchist
Viktor Demidovskiy
anarchist
Evgeniy Zosimov
tall sailor
Yuriy Kireev
sailor
Leonid Knyazev
sailor
Nikita Kondratyev
tall anarchist
Pyotr Kononykhin
sailor
Aleksei Milyukhin
sailor
Vadim Novikov
interventionist
Dmitriy Orlovskiy
old sailor
Vladimir Prikhodko
sailor
Anatoliy Sakhnovskiy
anarchist
Semen Svashenko
sailor
Aleksei Stroyev
anarchist
Nikolai Khryashchikov
sailor
Aleksey Bakhar
sailor (uncredited)
Nikolai Sibeykin
sailor (uncredited)
Mikhail Bocharov
sailor (uncredited)
Artur Nishchyonkin
sailor (uncredited)
Manefa Sobolevskaya
fareweller woman (uncredited)
Natalya Surovegina
fareweller girl (uncredited)
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