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An Optimistic Tragedy

1963·Directed by Samson Samsonov

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Released
June 12, 1963
Runtime
2h 1m

About An Optimistic Tragedy

  • War
  • Drama
  • History

Synopsis

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.

Director
  • Samson Samsonov
Writers
  • SVSofiya Vishnevetskaya
  • Samson Samsonov
  • VVVsevolod Vishnevsky
  • Mikhail Matusovsky
  • NGNina Glagoleva
Original title
Оптимистическая трагедия

Principal cast

In billing order
  • Margarita Volodinacommissar
  • Boris Andreyevvozhak
  • Vyacheslav TikhonovAleksei
  • Vsevolod SanayevSiplyy
  • OBOrvo BjörninenVainonen
  • Vsevolod SafonovBering
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