
An Optimistic Tragedy
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.
Cast

Aleksey Glazyrin
presenter

Manefa Sobolevskaya
fareweller woman (uncredited)

Daniil Netrebin
Ryaboy

Erast Garin
vozhachok

Viktor Shulgin
tall sailor

Yuriy Kireev
sailor

Nikita Kondratyev
tall anarchist

Nikolai Khryashchikov
sailor

Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Aleksei

Veronika Buzhinskaya
woman in black

Leonid Knyazev
sailor

Aleksey Bakhar
sailor (uncredited)

Mikhail Bocharov
sailor (uncredited)

Artur Nishchyonkin
sailor (uncredited)

Natalya Surovegina
fareweller girl (uncredited)

Vsevolod Safonov
Bering

Ivan Zhevago
boatswain

Gleb Strizhenov
second officer

Valentin Belokhvostik
presenter

Ivan Bychkov
sailor

Margarita Volodina
commissar

Pyotr Kononykhin
sailor

Vsevolod Sanayev
Siplyy

Grigory Mikhaylov
old sailor

Oleg Strizhenov
first officer

Evgeniy Zosimov
tall sailor

Boris Andreyev
vozhak

Pyotr Sobolevsky
ship's doctor

Dmitriy Orlovskiy
old sailor

Semyon Svashenko
sailor