An Optimistic Tragedy

Name: An Optimistic Tragedy
Genre: War, Drama, History
Released: 1963-06-12
Duration: 121 min
Rating: 5.2

★ 5,2 /10 (13 Votes)

1963 RU 121 min

Overview

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.

Release date

12/06/1963

Votes

Popularity

2.5

Genres

War Drama History

Status

Released

Original title

Оптимистическая трагедия

Language

Runtime

121 min

Margarita Volodina

commissar

Boris Andreyev

vozhak

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Aleksei

Vsevolod Sanayev

Siplyy

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Orvo Björninen

Vainonen

Vsevolod Safonov

Bering

Ivan Zhevago

boatswain

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

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Iosif Vankov

tattooed sailor

Veronika Buzhinskaya

woman in black

Viktor Shulgin

tall sailor

Ivan Bychkov

sailor

No photo

Ivan Bondar

sailor

No photo

Vladimir Grave

one-eyed anarchist

No photo

Viktor Demidovskiy

anarchist

No photo

V. Zabavin

Evgeniy Zosimov

tall sailor

Yuriy Kireev

sailor

Leonid Knyazev

sailor

Nikita Kondratyev

tall anarchist

Pyotr Kononykhin

sailor

No photo

Aleksey Milyukhin

sailor

No photo

Vadim Novikov

interventionist

Dmitriy Orlovskiy

old sailor

No photo

Vladimir Prikhodko

sailor

No photo

Anatoliy Sakhnovskiy

anarchist

Semyon Svashenko

sailor

No photo

V. Skuridin

No photo

Aleksei Stroyev

anarchist

Nikolai Khryashchikov

sailor

Aleksey Bakhar

sailor (uncredited)

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Nikolai Sibeykin

sailor (uncredited)

Mikhail Bocharov

sailor (uncredited)

Artur Nishchyonkin

sailor (uncredited)

Manefa Sobolevskaya

fareweller woman (uncredited)

Natalya Surovegina

fareweller girl (uncredited)

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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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