
An Optimistic Tragedy
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.
Cast

Viktor Shulgin
tall sailor

Semyon Svashenko
sailor

Ivan Zhevago
boatswain

Valentin Belokhvostik
presenter

Ivan Bychkov
sailor

Evgeniy Zosimov
tall sailor

Aleksey Bakhar
sailor (uncredited)

Artur Nishchyonkin
sailor (uncredited)

Grigory Mikhaylov
old sailor

Erast Garin
vozhachok

Veronika Buzhinskaya
woman in black

Mikhail Bocharov
sailor (uncredited)

Natalya Surovegina
fareweller girl (uncredited)

Vsevolod Sanayev
Siplyy

Oleg Strizhenov
first officer

Manefa Sobolevskaya
fareweller woman (uncredited)

Aleksey Glazyrin
presenter

Boris Andreyev
vozhak

Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Aleksei

Daniil Netrebin
Ryaboy

Nikolai Khryashchikov
sailor

Gleb Strizhenov
second officer

Nikita Kondratyev
tall anarchist

Pyotr Sobolevsky
ship's doctor

Yuriy Kireev
sailor

Dmitriy Orlovskiy
old sailor

Leonid Knyazev
sailor

Pyotr Kononykhin
sailor

Margarita Volodina
commissar

Vsevolod Safonov
Bering