Nikolay MASHCHENKO
Николай МАЩЕНКО
Nikolaï MACHTCHENKO
USSR (Ukraine), 1969, 77mn 
Black and white, fiction
Commissars
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Комиссары

 

 Les Commissaires

 Komissary

 
Directed by : Nikolay MASHCHENKO (Николай МАЩЕНКО)
Writing credits : Nikolay MASHCHENKO (Николай МАЩЕНКО), Boris TARASENKO (Борис ТАРАСЕНКО)
 
Cast
Borislav BRONDUKOV (Борислав БРОНДУКОВ) ...Dmitri Koval
Larisa KADOCHNIKOVA (Лариса КАДОЧНИКОВА) ...Shura, teacher
Ivan MIKOLAJCHUK (Иван МИКОЛАЙЧУК) ...Grigori Gromov
Fyodor PANASENKO (Федор ПАНАСЕНКО) ...Ivan Gerasimenko
Vladimir SKOMAROVSKY (Владимир СКОМАРОВСКИЙ) ...Nikolay Smirnov
Konstantin STEPANKOV (Константин СТЕПАНКОВ) ...Fyodor
 
Cinematography : Oleg MARTYNOV (Олег МАРТЫНОВ)
Production design : Anatoli DOBROLEZHA (Анатолий ДОБРОЛЕЖА)
Music : Ivan KARABITS (Иван КАРАБИЦ)
Production : Studio Dovzhenko
Release date in Russia : 1971
 

Plot synopsis
Year 1921. The Party sends its time-tried comissars to learn how to build brand new state of workers. But some bandit gangs, that were not all destroyed, are planning to attack the town. And the courses are not going plain as well. Too many different people are gathered here, and what also differs them is their treatment of the Party’s challenge…
The film based on historical material concerns sophisticated questions about philosophy and faith, and presents brilliant works of actors of the co-called Ukrainian “poetic cinema”.
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2010