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

Margarita Volodina
Commissar

Boris Andreyev
Vozhak

Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Aleksei

Vsevolod Sanayev
Siplyy

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

Veronika Buzhinskaya
woman in black

Viktor Shulgin
tall sailor

Ivan Bychkov
sailor

Evgeniy Zosimov
tall sailor

Yuriy Kireev
sailor

Leonid Knyazev
sailor
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Reviews
jaketheo
A homophobic, anti-Ukrainian, Muscovian paternalistic slog.
A brave Muscovian commissar teaches the devious, treacherous homo anarchist Ukrainians how to be good. They are animalistic, mob-like, they roar like animals when they die, they are granny killing rapists.
The film offers an amazing intro, some beautiful scenes and Margarita Volodina is a compelling actress, but the film is stilted, needlessly slow and outright racist. The character development is inane. Ham-fisted unsubtle propaganda.
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