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Director:
Aleksandr Askoldov
Writers:
Aleksandr Askoldov
Vasili Grossman (story)
Release Date:
26 August 1988 (Finland) See more »
Genre:
Drama | War See more »
Plot:
Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with... See more » | Add synopsis »
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Awards:
9 wins & 4 nominations See more »
User Reviews:
Don't be tricked See more (15 total) »

Cast

  (in credits order)
Nonna Mordyukova ... Klavdia Vavilova
Rolan Bykov ... Yefim Mahazannik
Raisa Nedashkovskaya ... Maria Mahazannik
Lyudmila Volynskaya ... The Grandmother
Vasili Shukshin ... The Commandant
Lyubov Kats (as Lyuba Kats)
Pavel Levin (as Pavlik Levin)
Dmitri Kleyman (as Dima Kleyman)
Marta Bratkova
Igor Fishman
Sergey Nikonenko
Otar Koberidze
Viktor Shakhov (as V. Shakhov)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Leonid Reutov (as L. Reutov)
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Directed by
Aleksandr Askoldov 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Aleksandr Askoldov 
Vasili Grossman  story "V gorode Berdicheve"

Original Music by
Alfred Schnittke 
 
Cinematography by
Valeri Ginzburg 
 
Film Editing by
Natalya Loginova  (as N. Loginova)
Svetlana Lyashinskaya  (as S. Lyashinskaya)
Nina Vasilyeva  (as V. Isayev)
 
Production Design by
Sergei Serebrennikov 
 
Costume Design by
Yakov Rivosh 
 
Sound Department
Yevgeni Bazanov .... sound
Liya Benevolskaya .... sound
Nikolai Shary .... sound
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
"Komissar" - Soviet Union (original title)
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Runtime:
110 min
Country:
Soviet Union
Language:
Russian
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 See more »
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Iceland:L | Portugal:M/12 (Qualidade) | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:15 | West Germany:12
Company:
Gorky Film StudiosSee more »

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Movie Connections:
Featured in "Fejezetek a film történetéböl: A szovjet film 1953-1970 (#1.12)" (1990)See more »

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27 out of 33 people found the following review useful.
Don't be tricked, 14 January 2005
Author: MikeH111 from United States

Don't be tricked by the rating. This movie is wildly, unforgivably underrated on IMDb. To speak of its beauties would take me volumes. Suffice it to say: find it, if you can (it may be still available in good video stores, on VHS) and be enthralled by one-of-a-kind movie. As opposed to overrated 8+ 9+ c... like American Beauty or the Korean Oldboy and other movies full of either vapid pomposity or of guts and gore and blood and nonsense, Komissar is an extraordinarily beautiful and fluent meditation on human nature, war, religion, childhood, good and evil. Miss it at your own peril.

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