The Commissars (1971)
This ideologically charged film as a typical sample of Soviet version of history portrays the events in Ukraine in 1921 after the defeat of Ukrainian liberation struggle and the occupation of the country by invading Bolshevik hordes. The Bolsheviks are good guys and Ukrainian rebels refusing to submit to a new, this time Soviet, slavery are portrayed as bandits and brigands fighting against their own people.
Director:
Mykola Mashchenko
Writers:
Boris Tarasenko, Mykola Mashchenko.
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Kostiantyn Stepankov as Fedor |
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Ivan Mykolaichuk as Gromov |
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Fedir Panasenko as Gerasimenko |
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Boryslav Brondukov as Koval |
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Vladimir Skomarovsky as Smirnov |
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Larysa Kadochnykova as Shura |
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Ivan Havryliuk as |
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Leonid Bakshtayev as Degtyaryov |
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Mikhail Golubovich as Kotsur |
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Mykola Hrynko as Arefiev |
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Aleksandr Bystrushkin as |
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Volodymyr Talashko as Ognivtsev |
| Writing | Boris Tarasenko | Screenplay |
| Writing | Mykola Mashchenko | Screenplay |
| Directing | Mykola Mashchenko | Director |
| Sound | Ivan Karabyts | Music |
| Camera | Oleg Martynov | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Yuriy Lybedynskyi | Novel |
| Editing | Natalia Akayomova | Editor |
| Art | Anatolii Dobrolezha | Production Design |