The Commissars (1971)

6.7/10 74 min Drama History

Overview

This ideologically charged film as a typical sample of Soviet version of history portrays the events in Ukraine in 1921 after the defeat of Ukrainian liberation struggle and the occupation of the country by invading Bolshevik hordes. The Bolsheviks are good guys and Ukrainian rebels refusing to submit to a new, this time Soviet, slavery are portrayed as bandits and brigands fighting against their own people.

Cast

Kostiantyn Stepankov

Fedor

Ivan Mykolaichuk

Gromov

Fedir Panasenko

Gerasimenko

Boryslav Brondukov

Koval

Vladimir Skomarovsky

Smirnov

Larysa Kadochnykova

Shura

Ivan Havryliuk

Leonid Bakshtayev

Degtyaryov

Mikhail Golubovich

Kotsur

Mykola Hrynko

Arefiev

Aleksandr Bystrushkin

Volodymyr Talashko

Ognivtsev

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