''Moonzund'' (russian: Моонзунд) is a 1988 Soviet
war film based on
Valentin Pikul's 1970 novel of the same name. "Moonzund" refers to the
West Estonian archipelago, where the
Battle of Moon Sound took place during
World War I.
Plot
Epic film set during the First World War brightly illustrates the struggles of Russian Empire in the years 1915–1917. The hardships of war cause major social and political unrest in the Tsarist Russia. Communist propaganda provokes conflicts between classes causing clashes and un-subordination aboard battleships of Russian Imperial Navy and on locations in
Tallinn,
Kronstadt and
Saint Petersburg. Torn by internal class struggle, Russian Navy is weakened and loses major battles in the
Baltic theater of war. Against this background, the commanding admirals of the Russian Navy are powerless witnesses of the tragic collapse of the fleet in terms of nascent
revolutionary events of 1917. Most film characters are officers and sailors of the Baltic Fleet.
Cast
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Oleg Menshikov as ''Captain Sergey Arten'ev''
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Vladimir Gostyukhin
Vladimir Vasilyevich Gostyukhin (russian: Владимир Васильевич Гостюхин, be, Уладзі́мір Васі́льевіч Гасцю́хін, born 10 March 1946) is a Soviet and Russian, Belarusian film and stage actor. ...
as ''Semenchuk''
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Lyudmila Nilskaya
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* Ludmila da Silva (born 1994), Brazilian footballer, com ...
as ''spy Anna "Klara Georgievna" Revelskaya''
*
Nikolai Karachentsov as officer ''Von Knupfer''
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Yury Belyayev as ''Admiral
Kolchak''
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Boris Klyuyev
Boris Vladimirovich Klyuyev (russian: Бори́с Влади́мирович Клю́ев; 13 July 1944 — 1 September 2020) was a Soviet and Russian actor and theatre teacher. He served as one of the lead actors of the Maly Theatre from 1969 t ...
as ''
Von Grapf
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Vija Artmane
Vija Artmane (born Alīda Artmane; 21 August 1929 in Kaive, Sēme Parish – 11 October 2008 in Strenči) was a Latvian theatre and cinema actress.
Life and career Childhood
Vija Artmane was born Alīda Artmane at the time when Latvia was a ...
as ''Frau Milch''
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Aleksei Buldakov
Aleksey Ivanovich Buldakov PAR (russian: Алексе́й Ива́нович Булдако́в) (26 March 1951 – 3 April 2019) was a Soviet and Russian movie actor.Kino-teatr.netBiography of Aleksey Buldakov
Selected filmography
* '' Throu ...
as ''Portnyagin, sailor''
*
Vladimir Baranov as ''orderly Platov''
*
Yevgenia Dobrovolskaya as ''Irina Artenyeva''
*
Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevstigneyev (russian: Евгений Александрович Евстигнеев; 9 October 1926 — 4 March 1992) was a prominent Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre pedagogue, one of the founders of the ...
as ''Admiral
Nikolai Essen''
*
Sergei Garmash as ''
Pavel Dybenko''
*
Vladimir Yeryomin as ''Leonid Deichman, Mechanical Engineer''
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Vladimir Golovin
Vladimir Golovin ( hu, Golovin Vlagyimir; born 21 March 1970) is a former team handball, handball player and the current head coach of the Hungary women's national handball team, Hungarian women's national team.
Born in Odessa, Soviet Union, G ...
as ''von Den''
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Petr Shelokhonov as ''Captain Andreev''
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Victor Kostetskiy as ''commander of the
cruiser "Rurik"''
External links
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1987 films
1980s war drama films
World War I films set on the Eastern Front
1980s Russian-language films
Lenfilm films
Soviet war drama films
Biographical films about military leaders
Cultural depictions of Alexander Kolchak
1987 drama films
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