An Optimistic Tragedy

1963 · 120 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 176 VOTES · DIR. Samson Samsonov

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Overview

1918 year. A woman commissar has been appointed from the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party to the Russian warship Gromoboi, which is ruled by anarchist sailors. The leader of the ship is the anarchist Vozhak. The Commissioner was instructed to reorganize the naval detachment into the First Sailor Regiment. She faces a difficult task: to win the authority of the sailors and eradicate anarchy. Of the remaining officers on the ship — lieutenant Bering, who served in the tsarist fleet on the battleship "Emperor Paul I". He must become the commander and, together with the sent commissar, lead the regiment to the front in the Black Sea region.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,055 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:04 the film took a prize as the Best Revolutionary epic.
00:05:21 The sailor's regiment
00:10:25 What's going on here? Hey listen!
00:15:36 She’s a ball of fire.
00:18:45 Can we talk?
00:22:59 Well, let bygones be...
00:27:55 Everybody’s a filthy liar.
00:31:44 This one?
00:35:48 - A farewell party! - Yes, ma'am.
00:45:01 Follow me!
00:49:04 Tell me why you retreated from the field? A manoeuvre?
00:51:56 Forgot people’s talk.
00:54:40 For ‘mine’?
00:59:20 What you want?
01:03:33 Doesn’t agree with me.
01:07:49 We’re going home.
01:10:34 It’s a shibboleth of a bourgeois trial.
01:15:04 Did you like to know it, killing an old lady?
01:20:08 We’re coming along.
01:25:49 From now, you are soldiers!
01:30:32 Here come
01:35:54 Meet Battalion Commander and your immediate assistant.
01:39:53 Hooray to the brave sailors
01:45:33 Be quiet, comrades! We’ll have to talk.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,055
Dialogue density8.8 lines / min
First line00:00:04
Final line01:45:33

Production Record

DirectorSamson Samsonov
LanguageRussian
IMDb votes176