France / May 21, 1963 / Cannes Film Festival
2h 1min
Overall average
5.0/10
Plot
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.
Main cast
Full cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Iosif Vankov | tattooed sailor |
| Veronika Buzhinskaya | woman in black |
| Viktor Shulgin | tall sailor |
| Ivan Bychkov | sailor |
| Ivan Bondar | sailor |
| Vladimir Grave | one-eyed anarchist |
| Viktor Demidovskiy | anarchist |
| V. Zabavin | |
| Evgeniy Zosimov | tall sailor |
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| Yuriy Kireev | sailor |
| Leonid Knyazev | sailor |
| Nikita Kondratyev | tall anarchist |
| Pyotr Kononykhin | sailor |
| Aleksey Milyukhin | sailor |
| Vadim Novikov | interventionist |
| Dmitriy Orlovskiy | old sailor |
| Vladimir Prikhodko | sailor |
| Anatoliy Sakhnovskiy | anarchist |
| Semen Svashenko | sailor |
| V. Skuridin | |
| Aleksei Stroyev | anarchist |
| Nikolai Khryashchikov | sailor |
| Aleksey Bakhar | sailor (uncredited) |
| Nikolai Sibeykin | sailor (uncredited) |
| Mikhail Bocharov | sailor (uncredited) |
| Artur Nishchyonkin | sailor (uncredited) |
| Manefa Sobolevskaya | fareweller woman (uncredited) |
| Natalya Surovegina | fareweller girl (uncredited) |
Genres
WarDramaHistory
Technical details
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Original title | Оптимистическая трагедия |
| Original language | Pусский (RU) |
| Spoken languages | Pусский |
| Production countries | Soviet Union |
| Status | Released |
| Production companies | Mosfilm |
| Release date | 12 giugno 1963 |
| Executive producer | Aleksandr Yablochkin |
| Writer | Sofiya Vishnevetskaya, Samson Samsonov, Vsevolod Vishnevsky, Mikhail Matusovsky, Nina Glagoleva |
| Editing | Aleksandra Kamagorova |
| Cinematography | Vladimir Monakhov, Igor Bogdanov, Vladimir Zakharchuk, Evgeniy Shvedov, Eberhard Borkmann |
| Assistant directors | Lyutsia Okhrimenko, Marina Koldobskaya, N. Solovyov, Samson Samsonov |
| Camera operators | Igor Bogdanov, Vladimir Zakharchuk, Vladimir Monakhov, Evgeniy Shvedov, Eberhard Borkmann |
| Additional photography | Vladimir Monakhov, Igor Bogdanov, Vladimir Zakharchuk, Evgeniy Shvedov, Eberhard Borkmann |
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| Production design | Ippolit Novoderyozhkin, Sergey Voronkov, L. Berlin |
| Art direction | Ippolit Novoderyozhkin, Sergey Voronkov, L. Berlin |
| Set decoration | Ippolit Novoderyozhkin, Sergey Voronkov, L. Berlin |
| Visual effects | Aleksandr Klimenko, Igor Felitsyn |
| Music | Vasily Dekhteryov, Veronika Dudarova, Grigori Korenblyum |
| Sound | Vasily Dekhteryov, Veronika Dudarova, Grigori Korenblyum |
| Costume design | Valentin Perelyotov, Sergey Kalinin |
| Makeup | Valentin Perelyotov, Sergey Kalinin |
| Hairstyling | Valentin Perelyotov, Sergey Kalinin |
Release dates
Premiere
Theatrical release
Russia / Jun 12, 1963
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