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An Optimistic Tragedy( 1963)

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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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Margarita Volodina

      Commissar

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      Boris Andreyev

      Vozhak

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      Vyacheslav Tikhonov

      Aleksei

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      Vsevolod Sanayev

      Siplyy

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      Orvo Björninen

      Vainonen

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      Vsevolod Safonov

      Bering

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      Ivan Zhevago

      boatswain

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      Daniil Netrebin

      Ryaboy

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      Grigory Mikhaylov

      old sailor

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      Pyotr Sobolevsky

      ship's doctor

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      Erast Garin

      Vozhachok

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      Oleg Strizhenov

      first officer

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      Gleb Strizhenov

      second officer

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      Aleksey Glazyrin

      presenter

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      Valentin Belokhvostik

      presenter

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      Iosif Vankov

      tattooed sailor

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      Veronika Buzhinskaya

      woman in black

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      Viktor Shulgin

      tall sailor

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      Ivan Bychkov

      sailor

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      Ivan Bondar

      sailor

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      Vladimir Grave

      one-eyed anarchist

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      Viktor Demidovskiy

      anarchist

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      Evgeniy Zosimov

      tall sailor

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      Yuriy Kireev

      sailor

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      Leonid Knyazev

      sailor

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      Nikita Kondratyev

      tall anarchist

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      Pyotr Kononykhin

      sailor

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      Aleksei Milyukhin

      sailor

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      Vadim Novikov

      interventionist

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      Dmitriy Orlovskiy

      old sailor

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      Vladimir Prikhodko

      sailor

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      Anatoliy Sakhnovskiy

      anarchist

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      Semen Svashenko

      sailor

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      Aleksei Stroyev

      anarchist

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      Nikolai Khryashchikov

      sailor

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      Aleksey Bakhar

      sailor (uncredited)

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      Nikolai Sibeykin

      sailor (uncredited)

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      Mikhail Bocharov

      sailor (uncredited)

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      Artur Nishchyonkin

      sailor (uncredited)

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      Manefa Sobolevskaya

      fareweller woman (uncredited)

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      Natalya Surovegina

      fareweller girl (uncredited)

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    A review by jaketheo

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    Written by jaketheo on Thu May 11 2023
    A homophobic, anti-Ukrainian, Muscovian paternalistic slog. A brave Muscovian commissar teaches the devious, treacherous homo anarchist Ukrainians how to be good. They are animalistic, mob-like, they roar like animals when they die, they are granny killing rapists. The film offers an amazing intro, some beautiful scenes and Margarita Volodina is a compelling actress, but the film is stilted, needlessly slow and outright racist. The character development is inane. Ham-fisted unsubtle propaganda....

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Revenue

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    Keywords

    • civil war
    • russian revolution (1917)
    • anarchism