An Optimistic Tragedy
120 mins
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.
Orvo Björninen
Vainonen
Iosif Vankov
tattooed sailor
Vladimir Grave
one-eyed anarchist
Viktor Demidovskiy
anarchist
Aleksei Milyukhin
sailor
Vadim Novikov
interventionist
Aleksei Stroyev
anarchist
Nikolai Sibeykin
sailor (uncredited)
Sofiya Vishnevetskaya
Writer
Vsevolod Vishnevsky
Theatre Play
Vladimir Monakhov
Director of Photography
Ippolit Novoderyozhkin
Production Design
Sergey Voronkov
Production Design
Vasily Dekhterev
Original Music Composer
Grigori Korenblyum
Sound
Antonina Kamagorova
Editor
Valentin Perelyotov
Costume Design
Igor Bogdanov
Camera Operator
Vladimir Zakharchuk
Camera Operator
Sergei Kalinin
Makeup Artist
Aleksandr Klimenko
Production Design
Igor Felitsyn
Camera Operator
Evgeniy Shvedov
Assistant Camera
Eberhard Borkmann
Assistant Camera