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An Optimistic Tragedy
An Optimistic Tragedy

An Optimistic Tragedy

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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.

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Budget

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Revenue

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Status

Released

Original Language

Russian

Runtime

120 mins

Rating

5/10

Release Date

12 June 1963

Country

Soviet Union

Cast

Margarita Volodina

Margarita Volodina

Commissar

Boris Andreyev

Boris Andreyev

Vozhak

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Aleksei

Vsevolod Sanayev

Vsevolod Sanayev

Siplyy

Orvo Björninen

Orvo Björninen

Vainonen

Vsevolod Safonov

Vsevolod Safonov

Bering

Ivan Zhevago

Ivan Zhevago

boatswain

Daniil Netrebin

Daniil Netrebin

Ryaboy

Grigory Mikhaylov

Grigory Mikhaylov

old sailor

Pyotr Sobolevsky

Pyotr Sobolevsky

ship's doctor

Erast Garin

Erast Garin

Vozhachok

Oleg Strizhenov

Oleg Strizhenov

first officer

Gleb Strizhenov

Gleb Strizhenov

second officer

Aleksey Glazyrin

Aleksey Glazyrin

presenter

Valentin Belokhvostik

Valentin Belokhvostik

presenter

Iosif Vankov

Iosif Vankov

tattooed sailor

Veronika Buzhinskaya

Veronika Buzhinskaya

woman in black

Viktor Shulgin

Viktor Shulgin

tall sailor

Ivan Bychkov

Ivan Bychkov

sailor

Ivan Bondar

Ivan Bondar

sailor

Vladimir Grave

Vladimir Grave

one-eyed anarchist

Viktor Demidovskiy

Viktor Demidovskiy

anarchist

Evgeniy Zosimov

Evgeniy Zosimov

tall sailor

Yuriy Kireev

Yuriy Kireev

sailor

Leonid Knyazev

Leonid Knyazev

sailor

Nikita Kondratyev

Nikita Kondratyev

tall anarchist

Pyotr Kononykhin

Pyotr Kononykhin

sailor

Aleksei Milyukhin

Aleksei Milyukhin

sailor

Vadim Novikov

Vadim Novikov

interventionist

Dmitriy Orlovskiy

Dmitriy Orlovskiy

old sailor

Vladimir Prikhodko

Vladimir Prikhodko

sailor

Anatoliy Sakhnovskiy

Anatoliy Sakhnovskiy

anarchist

Semen Svashenko

Semen Svashenko

sailor

Aleksei Stroyev

Aleksei Stroyev

anarchist

Nikolai Khryashchikov

Nikolai Khryashchikov

sailor

Aleksey Bakhar

Aleksey Bakhar

sailor (uncredited)

Nikolai Sibeykin

Nikolai Sibeykin

sailor (uncredited)

Mikhail Bocharov

Mikhail Bocharov

sailor (uncredited)

Artur Nishchyonkin

Artur Nishchyonkin

sailor (uncredited)

Manefa Sobolevskaya

Manefa Sobolevskaya

fareweller woman (uncredited)

Natalya Surovegina

Natalya Surovegina

fareweller girl (uncredited)

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