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An Optimistic Tragedy

1963

120 minutes

WarDramaHistory

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.

Top Cast

Margarita Volodina headshot

Margarita Volodina

Commissar

Boris Andreyev headshot

Boris Andreyev

Vozhak

Vyacheslav Tikhonov headshot

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Aleksei

Vsevolod Sanayev headshot

Vsevolod Sanayev

Siplyy

Orvo Björninen headshot

Orvo Björninen

Vainonen

Vsevolod Safonov headshot

Vsevolod Safonov

Bering

Ivan Zhevago headshot

Ivan Zhevago

boatswain

Daniil Netrebin headshot

Daniil Netrebin

Ryaboy

Grigory Mikhaylov headshot

Grigory Mikhaylov

old sailor

Pyotr Sobolevsky headshot

Pyotr Sobolevsky

ship's doctor

Erast Garin headshot

Erast Garin

Vozhachok

Oleg Strizhenov headshot

Oleg Strizhenov

first officer

Gleb Strizhenov headshot

Gleb Strizhenov

second officer

Aleksey Glazyrin headshot

Aleksey Glazyrin

presenter

Valentin Belokhvostik headshot

Valentin Belokhvostik

presenter

Iosif Vankov headshot

Iosif Vankov

tattooed sailor

Veronika Buzhinskaya headshot

Veronika Buzhinskaya

woman in black

Viktor Shulgin headshot

Viktor Shulgin

tall sailor

Ivan Bychkov headshot

Ivan Bychkov

sailor

Ivan Bondar headshot

Ivan Bondar

sailor

Vladimir Grave headshot

Vladimir Grave

one-eyed anarchist

Viktor Demidovskiy headshot

Viktor Demidovskiy

anarchist

Evgeniy Zosimov headshot

Evgeniy Zosimov

tall sailor

Yuriy Kireev headshot

Yuriy Kireev

sailor

Leonid Knyazev headshot

Leonid Knyazev

sailor

Nikita Kondratyev headshot

Nikita Kondratyev

tall anarchist

Pyotr Kononykhin headshot

Pyotr Kononykhin

sailor

Aleksei Milyukhin headshot

Aleksei Milyukhin

sailor

Vadim Novikov headshot

Vadim Novikov

interventionist

Dmitriy Orlovskiy headshot

Dmitriy Orlovskiy

old sailor

Vladimir Prikhodko headshot

Vladimir Prikhodko

sailor

Anatoliy Sakhnovskiy headshot

Anatoliy Sakhnovskiy

anarchist

Semen Svashenko headshot

Semen Svashenko

sailor

Aleksei Stroyev headshot

Aleksei Stroyev

anarchist

Nikolai Khryashchikov headshot

Nikolai Khryashchikov

sailor

Aleksey Bakhar headshot

Aleksey Bakhar

sailor (uncredited)

Nikolai Sibeykin headshot

Nikolai Sibeykin

sailor (uncredited)

Mikhail Bocharov headshot

Mikhail Bocharov

sailor (uncredited)

Artur Nishchyonkin headshot

Artur Nishchyonkin

sailor (uncredited)

Manefa Sobolevskaya headshot

Manefa Sobolevskaya

fareweller woman (uncredited)

Natalya Surovegina headshot

Natalya Surovegina

fareweller girl (uncredited)