
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

Manefa Sobolevskaya
fareweller woman (uncredited)

Margarita Volodina
commissar

Daniil Netrebin
Ryaboy

Pyotr Sobolevsky
ship's doctor

Evgeniy Zosimov
tall sailor

Natalya Surovegina
fareweller girl (uncredited)

Veronika Buzhinskaya
woman in black

Ivan Zhevago
boatswain

Grigory Mikhaylov
old sailor

Aleksey Glazyrin
presenter

Leonid Knyazev
sailor

Artur Nishchyonkin
sailor (uncredited)

Vsevolod Sanayev
Siplyy

Vsevolod Safonov
Bering

Oleg Strizhenov
first officer

Gleb Strizhenov
second officer

Viktor Shulgin
tall sailor

Nikita Kondratyev
tall anarchist

Boris Andreyev
vozhak

Pyotr Kononykhin
sailor

Dmitriy Orlovskiy
old sailor

Nikolai Khryashchikov
sailor

Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Aleksei

Erast Garin
vozhachok

Valentin Belokhvostik
presenter

Semyon Svashenko
sailor

Aleksey Bakhar
sailor (uncredited)

Ivan Bychkov
sailor

Yuriy Kireev
sailor

Mikhail Bocharov
sailor (uncredited)