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
Mikhail Bocharov
as sailor (uncredited)
Artur Nishchyonkin
as sailor (uncredited)
Leonid Knyazev
as sailor
Viktor Shulgin
as tall sailor
Yuriy Kireev
as sailor
Aleksey Bakhar
as sailor (uncredited)
Vsevolod Sanayev
as Siplyy
Vsevolod Safonov
as Bering
Daniil Netrebin
as Ryaboy
Erast Garin
as Vozhachok
Aleksey Glazyrin
as presenter
Evgeniy Zosimov
as tall sailor
Nikolai Khryashchikov
as sailor
Margarita Volodina
as Commissar
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
as Aleksei
Veronika Buzhinskaya
as woman in black
Pyotr Kononykhin
as sailor
Manefa Sobolevskaya
as fareweller woman (uncredited)
Natalya Surovegina
as fareweller girl (uncredited)
Ivan Zhevago
as boatswain
Valentin Belokhvostik
as presenter
Nikita Kondratyev
as tall anarchist
Boris Andreyev
as Vozhak
Grigory Mikhaylov
as old sailor
Pyotr Sobolevsky
as ship's doctor
Ivan Bychkov
as sailor
Oleg Strizhenov
as first officer
Gleb Strizhenov
as second officer
Anatoliy Sakhnovskiy
as anarchist
Semen Svashenko
as sailor
Dmitriy Orlovskiy
as old sailor