The Ballad of the Commissar
1967, RU. Directed by Aleksandr Surin.
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...
- Runtime
- 1h 5m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- RU
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- Released
- 10 November 1967
- Original title
- Баллада о комиссаре
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Viktor Potejkin
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Who directed The Ballad of the Commissar?
The Ballad of the Commissar (1967) was directed by Aleksandr Surin and stars Yuriy Nazarov, Talgat Nigmatulin, Galina Polskikh.