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The Commissars (1971)

The Commissars (1971)

Drama History
Release Date: 1971, July 1
Directors: Mykola Mashchenko
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Dovzhenko Film Studios, Dovzhenko Film Studios
Cast: Mykola Hrynko, Vladimir Skomarovsky, Kostiantyn Stepankov, Larysa Kadochnykova, Mikhail Golubovich, Boryslav Brondukov, Ivan Mykolaichuk, Volodymyr Talashko, Leonid Bakshtayev, Fedir Panasenko

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.