Soviet
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drama film directed by
Boris Barnet
Boris Vasilyevich Barnet (russian: Бори́с Васи́льевич Ба́рнет; 18 June 1902 – 8 January 1965) was a Soviet film director, actor and screenwriter of British heritage. He directed 27 films between 1927 and 1963. Barne ...
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Plot
The film takes place during the Civil War in the port city, which organizes poetic evenings. Two local poets successfully perform there. One of them later joins the white army and the other - red.
Cast
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Nikolay Kryuchkov
Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov (russian: Никола́й Афана́сьевич Крючко́в; 6 January 1911 – 13 April 1994) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1932 and 1993.
Selected fi ...
as Nikolai Tzarev, communist leader
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Izolda Izvitskaya
Izolda Vasilyevna Izvitskaya (russian: Изо́льда Васи́льевна Изви́цкая, 21 June 1932 – 1 March 1971) was a Soviet actress.
Isolda Izvitskaya was born in the small town of Dzerzhinsk, Russia. Her father was a chemist, ...
as Olga, communist agent
* Sergey Dvoretskiy as Nikolai Tarasov, communist poet (as S. Dvorzhetsky)
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Zoya Fyodorova
Zoya Alekseyevna Fyodorova (russian: Зоя Алексеевна Федорова; 11 December 1981) was a Russian film star who had an affair with American Navy captain Jackson Tate in 1945 and bore a child, Victoria Fyodorova in January 1946. ...
as Katherine Tarasova, mother of Nikolai (as Z. Fyodorova)
* I. Kolin as Pharmacist
* Olga Vikland as Pharmacist's wife
* Pyotr Aleynikov as Stepan - Red Army soldier
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Vsevolod Larionov
Vsevolod Dmitriyevich Larionov (russian: Всеволод Дмитриевич Ларионов; September 11, 1928 in Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union – October 8, 2000Georgiy Georgiu as Father Orlovsky
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Ivan Koval-Samborsky
Ivan Koval-Samborsky ( Ukrainian: Іван Коваль-Самборський; 16 September 1893 – 10 January 1962) was a Ukrainian stage and film actor. After establishing himself in the Soviet film industry in the 1920s, he briefly went to wor ...
as Colonel
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Vera Altayskaya
Vera Vladimirovna Altayskaya (russian: Ве́ра Влади́мировна Алта́йская) (21 May 1919 – 28 December 1978) was a Soviet actress known for her roles in children's fairy tale films and comedies.
Born in Petrograd, she wa ...
Valentin Gaft
Valentin Iosifovich Gaft (russian: Валенти́н Ио́сифович Гафт; 2 September 1935 – 12 December 2020) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was People's Artist of the RSFSR (1984).
Biography Early life and education
Gaft was ...
as French soldier
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Tatyana Guretskaya
Tatiana (or Tatianna, also romanized as Tatyana, Tatjana, Tatijana, etc.) is a female name of Sabine-Roman origin that became widespread in Eastern Europe.
Variations
* be, Тацця́на, Tatsiana
* bg, Татяна, Tatyana
* germa ...
as Communist agent
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Rina Zelyonaya
Ekaterina Vasilyevna Zelyonaya (russian: link=no, Екатерина Васильевна Зелёная); ( — 1 April 1991, Moscow), better known by her stage name Rina Zelyonaya, was a Soviet actress, singer and comedian. She was named Peopl ...