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.
Cast & Crew
Margarita Volodina
Commissar
Boris Andreyev
Vozhak
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Aleksei
Vsevolod Sanayev
Siplyy
Vsevolod Safonov
Bering
Ivan Zhevago
boatswain
Daniil Netrebin
Ryaboy
Grigory Mikhaylov
old sailor
Pyotr Sobolevsky
ship's doctor
Erast Garin
Vozhachok
Oleg Strizhenov
first officer
Gleb Strizhenov
second officer
Aleksey Glazyrin
presenter
Valentin Belokhvostik
presenter
Veronika Buzhinskaya
woman in black
Viktor Shulgin
tall sailor
Ivan Bychkov
sailor
Ivan Bondar
sailor
Evgeniy Zosimov
tall sailor
Yuriy Kireev
sailor
Leonid Knyazev
sailor
Nikita Kondratyev
tall anarchist
Pyotr Kononykhin
sailor
Dmitriy Orlovskiy
old sailor
Vladimir Prikhodko
sailor
Anatoliy Sakhnovskiy
anarchist
Semen Svashenko
sailor
Nikolai Khryashchikov
sailor
Aleksey Bakhar
sailor (uncredited)
Mikhail Bocharov
sailor (uncredited)
Artur Nishchyonkin
sailor (uncredited)
Manefa Sobolevskaya
fareweller woman (uncredited)
Natalya Surovegina
fareweller girl (uncredited)
Samson Samsonov
Director
Sofiya Vishnevetskaya, Samson Samsonov
Writer
