Optimistic Tragedy (film)

Optimistic Tragedy Russian , translit.Optimisticheskaya tragediya is a 1963 Soviet film directed by Samson Samsonov. It is based on the eponymous play by Vsevolod Vishnevsky and was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.

During Russian Revolution of 1917, the Marine squad, led by anarchist leader Vozhak Boris Andreyev starts the revolt. The Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party sends a woman Commissar Margarita Volodina to form Red Army battalion from the marines to take part in the Russian Civil War.

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