Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.
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Title: The Commissar (1967)
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| Nonna Mordyukova | ... | Klavdia Vavilova | |
| Rolan Bykov | ... | Yefim Mahazannik | |
| Raisa Nedashkovskaya | ... | Maria Mahazannik | |
| Lyudmila Volynskaya | ... | The Grandmother | |
| Vasiliy Shukshin | ... | The Commandant | |
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Lyubov Kats | ... | Children (as Lyuba Kats) |
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Pavel Levin | ... | Children (as Pavlik Levin) |
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Dmitri Kleyman | ... | Children (as Dima Kleyman) |
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Marta Bratkova | ... | Children |
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Igor Fishman | ... | Children |
| Sergey Nikonenko | |||
| Otar Koberidze | |||
| Leonid Reutov | ... | Chief of Staff (as L. Reutov) | |
| Valeri Ryzhakov | ... | Kursant | |
| Viktor Shakhov | ... | (as V. Shakhov) | |
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Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.
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The first Russian film in which Jewish characters had major and sympathetic roles. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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Soviet UnionLanguage:
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1967 (Soviet Union) See more »Also Known As:
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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.
10 out of 10