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.
00:05:23 that did the duty
00:10:35 Under the fragrant lilac…
00:16:15 Who’s to call him?
00:20:05 Unlike him…
00:23:35 Now look at you!
00:28:37 Okay. Suppose everybody’s got his share.
00:32:49 Get him overboard.
00:40:45 Don’t you fly and sing
00:46:51 as the gold coins are pouring out
00:50:04 flew away so gracefully…
00:53:09 closer not to stumble on it.
00:56:39 I’ll get you in the end.
01:01:02 - Yes. - Tell it before the force!
01:06:06 Yes, ma’am. What’s on the agenda?
01:09:36 - …returning home? - Yes.
01:13:21 They could have joined us!
01:17:41 It reads entirely different thing!
01:24:16 Why so uncommunicative?
01:29:49 Give up your job
01:35:15 So hard…
01:39:10 will never flinch.
01:45:16 And on you.
02:00:00 in the Red Army.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,055
Dialogue density8.8 lines / min
First line00:00:04
Final line02:00:00

Production Record

DirectorSamson Samsonov
LanguageRussian
IMDb votes176