The Commissars
1971
74 minutes
Overview
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.
Top Cast
Kostiantyn Stepankov
Fedor
Ivan Mykolaichuk
Gromov
Fedir Panasenko
Gerasimenko
Boryslav Brondukov
Koval
Vladimir Skomarovsky
Smirnov
Larysa Kadochnykova
Shura
Ivan Havryliuk
Leonid Bakshtayev
Degtyaryov
Mikhail Golubovich
Kotsur
Nikolay Grinko
Arefiev
Oleksandr Bystrushkin
Volodymyr Talashko
Ognivtsev