
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

Evgeniy Zosimov
tall sailor

Artur Nishchyonkin
sailor (uncredited)

Pyotr Sobolevsky
ship's doctor

Erast Garin
vozhachok

Gleb Strizhenov
second officer

Ivan Bychkov
sailor

Yuriy Kireev
sailor

Boris Andreyev
vozhak

Grigory Mikhaylov
old sailor

Viktor Shulgin
tall sailor

Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Aleksei

Vsevolod Sanayev
Siplyy

Veronika Buzhinskaya
woman in black

Mikhail Bocharov
sailor (uncredited)

Daniil Netrebin
Ryaboy

Valentin Belokhvostik
presenter

Pyotr Kononykhin
sailor

Semyon Svashenko
sailor

Ivan Zhevago
boatswain

Nikita Kondratyev
tall anarchist

Aleksey Bakhar
sailor (uncredited)

Manefa Sobolevskaya
fareweller woman (uncredited)

Natalya Surovegina
fareweller girl (uncredited)

Margarita Volodina
commissar

Leonid Knyazev
sailor

Vsevolod Safonov
Bering

Dmitriy Orlovskiy
old sailor

Nikolai Khryashchikov
sailor

Oleg Strizhenov
first officer

Aleksey Glazyrin
presenter