The Ballad of the Commissar

11/10/1967

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1hr 5min

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Drama

,War

STORY

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 & CREW

    Cast

  • Yuriy Nazarov
  • Talgat Nigmatulin
  • Galina Polskikh
  • Viktor Shulgin
  • Aleksandr Titov

    Director

  • Aleksandr Surin

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Mosfilm

    Production Countries

  • Soviet Union

LANGUAGES