Soviet sailors seize history in crisp black-and-white—revolution has never looked this dramatically sweaty.
A film about the struggle of Baltic Fleet sailors for revolutionary Petrograd in the autumn of 1917. The film focuses on the fates of a sailor and a naval officer who join the ranks of those fighting for the revolution.
Cinematography
Spectacular actual Baltic Fleet ships in glorious SovietScope.
Production
Massive crowd scenes that probably involved real soldiers.
Director
Yan Frid
Pavel Kadochnikov
командир эсминца «Гром»
Leonid Kmit
комиссар Центробалта
Nikolay Makeyev
Василий Еремин
Mikhail Ivanov
боцман Петрович
Natalya Katasheva
Татьяна
German Orlov
Жилин
Vladislav Strzhelchik
Антон Батурин
Efim Kopelyan
фельдфебель Сусликов
Iosif Kutyansky
Фёдор Лютов, минный старшина эсминца «Гром»
Inna Vykhodtseva
Люся Зарницына
Vladimir Vasilyev
анархист (нет в титрах)
Vitaliy Illich
офицер в штабе
Alexander Zhukov
французский атташе (нет в титрах)
Aleksei Smirnov
матрос с «Дианы» на демонстрации
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Yan Frid filmed aboard actual warships of the Baltic Fleet, many of which had fought in the 1917 revolution.
Released during Khrushchev's Thaw, this was among the last wave of Stalin-era revolutionary epics before Soviet cinema turned grittier.
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