Commissar (film)
Commissar Russian , translit.Komissar is a 1967 Soviet film based on one of Vasily Grossmans first short stories, In the Town of Berdichev . The main characters were played by two Peoples Artists of the USSR, Rolan Bykov and Nonna Mordyukova. Made at Gorky Film Studio.
It was shot in the political climate of the postKhrushchev Thaw. From the outset of the production, Goskino censors forced the film director Aleksandr Askoldov to make major changes 1967 was the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution and the events were to be presented in the Communist Partymandated style of heroic realism.After making the film, Askoldov lost his job, was expelled from the Communist Party, charged with social parasitism, exiled from Moscow, and banned from working on feature films for life. He was told that the single copy of the film had been destroyed. Mordyukova and Bykov, major Soviet movie stars, had to plead with the authorities to spare him of even bigger charges. The film was shelved by the KGB for twenty years. ........
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