

An Optimistic Tragedy
Overview
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.
Movie Details
Languages
Russian
Studio
Mosfilm
Key Crew

Samson Samsonov
Director

Samson Samsonov
Writer
Cast

Margarita Volodina
Commissar

Boris Andreyev
Vozhak

Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Aleksei

Vsevolod Sanayev
Siplyy
Orvo Björninen
Vainonen

Vsevolod Safonov
Bering

Ivan Zhevago
boatswain

Daniil Netrebin
Ryaboy

Grigory Mikhaylov
old sailor

Pyotr Sobolevsky
ship's doctor

Erast Garin
Vozhachok

Oleg Strizhenov
first officer

Gleb Strizhenov
second officer

Aleksey Glazyrin
presenter

Valentin Belokhvostik
presenter
Iosif Vankov
tattooed sailor

Veronika Buzhinskaya
woman in black

Viktor Shulgin
tall sailor

Ivan Bychkov
sailor

Ivan Bondar
sailor