Movielogr
The Commissars (1971)
Directed by Mykola Mashchenko
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.
Length 74 minutes
Actors
Konstantin Stepankov | Ivan Mykolaichuk | Fedir Panasenko | Borislav Brondukov | Vladimir Skomarovsky | Larisa Kadochnikova | Ivan Gavrilyuk | Leonid Bakshtayev | Mikhail Golubovich | Nikolay Grinko | Oleksandr Bystrushkin | Vladimir Talashko