The Commissars
movie
Released July 01, 1971
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
as
Fedor
Ivan Mykolaichuk
as
Gromov
Fedir Panasenko
as
Gerasimenko
Boryslav Brondukov
as
Koval
Vladimir Skomarovsky
as
Smirnov
Larysa Kadochnykova
as
Shura
Ivan Havryliuk
Leonid Bakshtayev
as
Degtyaryov
Mikhail Golubovich
as
Kotsur
Mykola Hrynko
as
Arefiev
Oleksandr Bystrushkin
Volodymyr Talashko
as
Ognivtsev
