The Commissars

The Commissars

74 mins | Drama, History | July 1, 1971

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.

The Commissars

74 mins | Drama, History | July 1, 1971

The Commissars
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.
Producers Dovzhenko Film Studios
Original title Комісари
Directors Mykola Mashchenko
Writers Boris Tarasenko, Mykola Mashchenko

Cast

Ivan Mykolaichuk

as Gromov

Fedir Panasenko

as Gerasimenko

Leonid Bakshtayev

as Degtyaryov

Nikolay Grinko

as Arefiev

Vladimir Talashko

as Ognivtsev