An Optimistic Tragedy (1963)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

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

Director & Crew

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