The Ballad of the Commissar (1967)
Overview
The events unfold during the years of the Civil War. Commissar Fadeytsev once spared the life of a White officer, Chugureyev. Now, in the days of the counter-revolutionary uprising, Chugureyev, sent by his command to a remote island, encounters Fadeytsev, who is hiding in the house of a gamekeeper named Maksim. The gamekeeper is sentenced to hang, and the sentence is carried out. Fadeytsev manages to escape captivity, but being on an island, he knows full well that he won’t get far from the enemy...
Cast
Yuriy Nazarov
Kommissar Fadejtsev
Talgat Nigmatulin
Oberleutnant
Galina Polskikh
Anna
Viktor Shulgin
Fürst Chugureyev
Aleksandr Titov
Maksim CherkassovRecommendations
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