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5.0/10 • 12

1963-06-122h 0m

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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.

Directors
Samson Samsonov
Writters
Sofiya Vishnevetskaya, Samson Samsonov
Editors
Sofiya Vishnevetskaya, Samson Samsonov, Aleksandra Kamagorova

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  1. Margarita Volodina

    Margarita Volodina

    Commissar

  2. Boris Andreyev

    Boris Andreyev

    Vozhak

  3. Vyacheslav Tikhonov

    Vyacheslav Tikhonov

    Aleksei

  4. Vsevolod Sanayev

    Vsevolod Sanayev

    Siplyy

  5. Orvo Björninen

    Orvo Björninen

    Vainonen

  6. Vsevolod Safonov

    Vsevolod Safonov

    Bering

  7. Ivan Zhevago

    Ivan Zhevago

    boatswain

  8. Daniil Netrebin

    Daniil Netrebin

    Ryaboy

  9. Grigory Mikhaylov

    Grigory Mikhaylov

    old sailor

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jaketheo

May 11, 2023

3/10

A homophobic, anti-Ukrainian, Muscovian paternalistic slog. A brave Muscovian commissar teaches the devious, treacherous homo anarchist Ukrainians how to be good. They are animalistic, mob-like, they roar like animals when they die, they are granny killing rapists. The film offers an amazing intro, some beautiful scenes and Margarita Volodina is a compelling actress, but the film is stilted, needlessly slow and outright racist. The character development is inane. Ham-fisted unsubtle propaganda.

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Status
Released
Original Language
Russian
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
civil warrussian revolution (1917)anarchism