About the film
Revolution is everywhere and the Baltic Fleet is in chaos. The Bolsheviks send a commissar to a ship where the sailors follow an anarchist leader. The commissar is a young woman.
The crew greet her with insults and worse. She answers with nerve and a revolver, and slowly wins them over, while the anarchists plot against her.
Based on a famous Soviet play, the film is big, dramatic and full of strong faces, including a young Vyacheslav Tikhonov as an officer.
Did you know?
- It was selected for competition at the 1963 Cannes festival.
- Vyacheslav Tikhonov later became famous as Stirlitz in Seventeen Moments of Spring.
