An Optimistic Tragedy
Оптимистическая трагедия
Release: 1963-06-12
·Runtime: 120m
·★ 5.0
War
Drama
History
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.
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Mosfilm
Cast
Yuriy Kireev
as sailor
Leonid Knyazev
as sailor
Erast Garin
as Vozhachok
Anatoliy Sakhnovskiy
as anarchist
Ivan Zhevago
as boatswain
Veronika Buzhinskaya
as woman in black
Evgeniy Zosimov
as tall sailor
Semen Svashenko
as sailor
Nikolai Khryashchikov
as sailor
Natalya Surovegina
as fareweller girl (uncredited)
Margarita Volodina
as Commissar
Vsevolod Safonov
as Bering
Grigory Mikhaylov
as old sailor
Nikita Kondratyev
as tall anarchist
Aleksey Bakhar
as sailor (uncredited)
Artur Nishchyonkin
as sailor (uncredited)
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
as Aleksei
Pyotr Kononykhin
as sailor
Pyotr Sobolevsky
as ship's doctor
Aleksey Glazyrin
as presenter
Viktor Shulgin
as tall sailor
Ivan Bychkov
as sailor
Mikhail Bocharov
as sailor (uncredited)
Vsevolod Sanayev
as Siplyy
Oleg Strizhenov
as first officer
Gleb Strizhenov
as second officer
Dmitriy Orlovskiy
as old sailor
Manefa Sobolevskaya
as fareweller woman (uncredited)
Boris Andreyev
as Vozhak
Daniil Netrebin
as Ryaboy
Valentin Belokhvostik
as presenter
