The Ballad of the CommissarMovie
The events unfold during the years of the Civil War. Commissar Fadeytsev once spared the life of a White officer, Chugureyev. Now, in the days of the counter-revolutionary uprising, Chugureyev, sent by his command to a remote island, encounters Fadeytsev, who is hiding in the house of a gamekeeper named Maksim. The gamekeeper is sentenced to hang, and the sentence is carried out. Fadeytsev manages to escape captivity, but being on an island, he knows full well that he won’t get far from the enemy...
About The Ballad of the Commissar
The Ballad of the Commissar is a 1967 drama, war movie directed by Aleksandr Surin.
The production information lists a runtime of 1h 5m, production credits from Soviet Union, an original language code of RU.
The credited cast includes Yuriy Nazarov, Talgat Nigmatulin, Galina Polskikh, Viktor Shulgin. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
