Cinema
The Commissars
Комісари
Mykola Mashchenko · 1971
Synopsis
1921. To build the state of workers and peasants, the party sends its most tried fighters to take commissar courses and learn to administer. But the bands that have not been crushed are preparing to attack the city, and on the benches of the courses, Fedir Lukachov, Hryhori Hromov and the others do not view their new tasks in the same light; the schoolteacher Shura watches them.
Context
Based on a short story by Yuri Libedinsky published in 1925, the film was written by Borys Tarasenko and the director, photographed by Oleh Martynov, to music by Ivan Karabyts. Dated 1969 or 1970 by the studio, it was released in Ukraine only in July 1971. Fedir Panasenko and Boryslav Brondukov play commissars in it; Konstantin Stepankov plays Lukachov, Ivan Mykolaichuk Hromov and Larysa Kadochnykova the schoolteacher.
Who it is for
A film of about an hour and a quarter, made almost entirely of conversations, against a background of armed threat.
Prizes and reception
Nikolai Ostrovsky Prize of the Komsomol of Ukraine, awarded to its author for this film and two earlier ones.
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