An Optimistic Tragedy

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Play Time: 120 mins
War, Drama, History
An Optimistic Tragedy

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.

Original Title:Оптимистическая трагедия
Status: Released (1963-06-12)
Awards:2 wins & 1 nomination total
Screen:Samson Samsonov, Sofiya Vishnevetskaya, Vsevolod Vishnevskiy
Productions: Mosfilm
Production Countries: Soviet Union
Spoken Languages: Pусский
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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 off ....

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