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.
Directed by Aleksandr Askoldov
commissar
IMDB
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Letterboxd
3.9 / 5
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Cast
Nonna Mordyukova
Klavdia Vavilova
Rolan Bykov
Yefim Mahazannik
Rayisa Nedashkivska
Maria Mahazannik
Vasiliy Shukshin
The Commandant
Lyudmila Volynskaya
The Grandmother
Sergey Nikonenko
Otar Koberidze
Leonid Reutov
Crew
Alfred Schnittke
Original Music Composer
Valeriy Ginzburg
Director of Photography
Yakov Rivosh
Costume Design
Vasiliy Grossman
Short Story
Aleksandr Machilskiy
Camera Operator
Ilya Minkovetski
Camera Operator
Emin Khachaturyan
Conductor
Popular Reviews
7 reviews
Alice Travell
9.0★ · 11/21/25
Intense and hauntingly beautiful. Some of the most amazing dream sequences, though much of it feels like a nightmare. Pain and oppression are so present throughout that it bears down on the viewer.
Intense and hauntingly beautiful. Some of the most amazing dream sequences, though much of it feels like a nightmare. Pain and oppression are so present throughout that it bears down on the viewer.
