An Optimistic Tragedy
19631918 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.
Acted in
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
Yuriy Kireev
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
Anatoliy Sakhnovskiy
as anarchist
Semen Svashenko
as sailor
Aleksei Stroyev
as anarchist
Nikolai Khryashchikov
as sailor
Aleksey Bakhar
as sailor (uncredited)
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)