An Optimistic Tragedy

Release Date: 1963-06-12

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.

Rating: 5 / 10

Cast

Margarita Volodina

as Commissar

Boris Andreyev

as Vozhak

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

as Aleksei

Vsevolod Sanayev

as Siplyy

Orvo Björninen

as Vainonen

Crew

Samson Samsonov - Director
Sofiya Vishnevetskaya - Writer
Samson Samsonov - Writer
Vsevolod Vishnevsky - Theatre Play
Vladimir Monakhov - Director of Photography

Reviews

jaketheo:

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, th...