The Ballad of the Commissar

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...

Details

Status

Released

Release date

November 10, 1967

Original language

Russian

Countries

Soviet Union

Production

Mosfilm

Cast

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

Director

Aleksandr Surin

Writer

Viktor Potejkin

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0306508