An Optimistic Tragedy (1963)
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.
Director: Samson Samsonov
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Margarita Volodina as commissar |
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Boris Andreyev as vozhak |
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Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Aleksei |
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Vsevolod Sanayev as Siplyy |
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Orvo Björninen as Vainonen |
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Vsevolod Safonov as Bering |
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Ivan Zhevago as boatswain |
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Daniil Netrebin as Ryaboy |
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Grigory Mikhaylov as old sailor |
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Pyotr Sobolevsky as ship's doctor |
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Erast Garin as vozhachok |
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Oleg Strizhenov as first officer |
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Gleb Strizhenov as second officer |
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Aleksey Glazyrin as presenter |
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Valentin Belokhvostik as presenter |
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Iosif Vankov as tattooed sailor |
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Veronika Buzhinskaya as woman in black |
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Viktor Shulgin as tall sailor |
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Ivan Bychkov as sailor |
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Ivan Bondar as sailor |
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Vladimir Grave as one-eyed anarchist |
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Viktor Demidovskiy as anarchist |
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V. Zabavin as |
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Evgeniy Zosimov as tall sailor |
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Yuriy Kireev as sailor |
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Leonid Knyazev as sailor |
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Nikita Kondratyev as tall anarchist |
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Pyotr Kononykhin as sailor |
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Aleksey Milyukhin as sailor |
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Vadim Novikov as interventionist |
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Dmitriy Orlovskiy as old sailor |
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Vladimir Prikhodko as sailor |
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Anatoliy Sakhnovskiy as anarchist |
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Semen Svashenko as sailor |
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V. Skuridin as |
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Aleksei Stroyev as anarchist |
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Nikolai Khryashchikov as sailor |
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Aleksey Bakhar as sailor (uncredited) |
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Nikolai Sibeykin as sailor (uncredited) |
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Mikhail Bocharov as sailor (uncredited) |
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Artur Nishchyonkin as sailor (uncredited) |
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Manefa Sobolevskaya as fareweller woman (uncredited) |
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Natalya Surovegina as fareweller girl (uncredited) |
| Directing | Samson Samsonov | Director |
| Writing | Sofiya Vishnevetskaya | Writer |
| Writing | Samson Samsonov | Writer |
| Writing | Vsevolod Vishnevsky | Theatre Play |
| Camera | Vladimir Monakhov | Director of Photography |
| Art | Ippolit Novoderyozhkin | Production Design |
| Art | Sergey Voronkov | Production Design |
| Sound | Vasily Dekhteryov | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Aleksandra Kamagorova | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Valentin Perelyotov | Costume Design |
| Camera | Igor Bogdanov | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Vladimir Zakharchuk | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Veronika Dudarova | Conductor |
| Camera | Evgeniy Shvedov | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Eberhard Borkmann | Assistant Camera |
| Sound | Grigori Korenblyum | Sound Director |
| Writing | Mikhail Matusovsky | Lyricist |
| Visual Effects | Igor Felitsyn | VFX Director of Photography |
| Art | L. Berlin | Sculptor |
| Writing | Nina Glagoleva | Script Editor |
| Production | Aleksandr Yablochkin | Executive Producer |
| Directing | Lyutsia Okhrimenko | First Assistant Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Sergey Kalinin | Makeup & Hair |
| Visual Effects | Aleksandr Klimenko | VFX Supervisor |
| Directing | Marina Koldobskaya | Assistant Director |
| Directing | N. Solovyov | Assistant Director |
| Crew | N. Molotkov | Military Consultant |
| Crew | Nikolay Smirnov | Military Consultant |
| Crew | Nikolay Oslikovskiy | Military Consultant |
| Crew | S. Kornilov | Military Consultant |
