
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

Pyotr Kononykhin
sailor

Dmitriy Orlovskiy
old sailor

Semyon Svashenko
sailor

Aleksey Bakhar
sailor (uncredited)

Daniil Netrebin
Ryaboy

Aleksey Glazyrin
presenter

Ivan Bychkov
sailor

Nikolai Khryashchikov
sailor

Margarita Volodina
commissar

Oleg Strizhenov
first officer

Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Aleksei

Grigory Mikhaylov
old sailor

Nikita Kondratyev
tall anarchist

Evgeniy Zosimov
tall sailor

Leonid Knyazev
sailor

Artur Nishchyonkin
sailor (uncredited)

Ivan Zhevago
boatswain

Erast Garin
vozhachok

Valentin Belokhvostik
presenter

Mikhail Bocharov
sailor (uncredited)

Vsevolod Safonov
Bering

Veronika Buzhinskaya
woman in black

Yuriy Kireev
sailor

Boris Andreyev
vozhak

Vsevolod Sanayev
Siplyy

Pyotr Sobolevsky
ship's doctor

Gleb Strizhenov
second officer

Manefa Sobolevskaya
fareweller woman (uncredited)

Natalya Surovegina
fareweller girl (uncredited)

Viktor Shulgin
tall sailor