
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

Ivan Zhevago
boatswain

Dmitriy Orlovskiy
old sailor

Artur Nishchyonkin
sailor (uncredited)

Manefa Sobolevskaya
fareweller woman (uncredited)

Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Aleksei

Vsevolod Sanayev
Siplyy

Grigory Mikhaylov
old sailor

Ivan Bychkov
sailor

Yuriy Kireev
sailor

Pyotr Kononykhin
sailor

Margarita Volodina
commissar

Boris Andreyev
vozhak

Daniil Netrebin
Ryaboy

Erast Garin
vozhachok

Aleksey Glazyrin
presenter

Nikolai Khryashchikov
sailor

Mikhail Bocharov
sailor (uncredited)

Oleg Strizhenov
first officer

Aleksey Bakhar
sailor (uncredited)

Pyotr Sobolevsky
ship's doctor

Valentin Belokhvostik
presenter

Nikita Kondratyev
tall anarchist

Semyon Svashenko
sailor

Natalya Surovegina
fareweller girl (uncredited)

Gleb Strizhenov
second officer

Veronika Buzhinskaya
woman in black

Evgeniy Zosimov
tall sailor

Vsevolod Safonov
Bering

Viktor Shulgin
tall sailor

Leonid Knyazev
sailor