An Optimistic Tragedy

An Optimistic Tragedy

120 mins | Drama, War, History | June 12, 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.

An Optimistic Tragedy

120 mins | Drama, War, History | June 12, 1963

An Optimistic Tragedy
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.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers Mosfilm
Original title Оптимистическая трагедия
Directors Samson Samsonov
Writers Sofiya Vishnevetskaya, Vsevolod Vishnevsky, Samson Samsonov

Cast

Margarita Volodina

as Commissar

Boris Andreyev

as Vozhak

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

as Aleksei

Vsevolod Sanayev

as Siplyy

Orvo Björninen

as Vainonen

Vsevolod Safonov

as Bering

Ivan Zhevago

as boatswain

Daniil Netrebin

as Ryaboy

Grigory Mikhaylov

as old sailor

Pyotr Sobolevsky

as ship's doctor

Erast Garin

as Vozhachok

Oleg Strizhenov

as first officer

Gleb Strizhenov

as second officer

Aleksey Glazyrin

as presenter

Valentin Belokhvostik

as presenter

Iosif Vankov

as tattooed sailor

Veronika Buzhinskaya

as woman in black

Viktor Shulgin

as tall sailor

Ivan Bychkov

as sailor

Ivan Bondar

as sailor

Vladimir Grave

as one-eyed anarchist

Viktor Demidovskiy

as anarchist

Evgeniy Zosimov

as tall sailor

Yuri Kireyev

as sailor

Leonid Knyazev

as sailor

Nikita Kondratyev

as tall anarchist

Pyotr Kononykhin

as sailor

Aleksei Milyukhin

as sailor

Vadim Novikov

as interventionist

Dmitriy Orlovskiy

as old sailor

Vladimir Prikhodko

as sailor

Anatoly Sakhnovsky

as anarchist

Semen Svashenko

as sailor

Aleksei Stroyev

as anarchist

Nikolai Sibeykin

as sailor (uncredited)

Mikhail Bocharov

as sailor (uncredited)

Artur Nishchyonkin

as sailor (uncredited)

Manefa Sobolevskaya

as fareweller woman (uncredited)

Natalya Surovegina

as fareweller girl (uncredited)