Synopsis
An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
35 audience votes
Key crew
- Gavriil PopovOriginal Music Composer
- Sergey VasilevDirector
- Georgi VasilyevDirector
- Georgi VasilyevScreenplay
- Sergey VasilevScreenplay
Cast
- Boris BabochkinChapayev
- Leonid KmitPetka
- Varvara MyasnikovaAnka
- Boris BlinovFurmanov
- Illarion PevtsovBorozdin
- Nikolai SimonovZhikharev
- Boris ChirkovPeasant
- Stepan ShkuratBorozdin's striker
- Vyacheslav VolkovYelan
- Emil GalTall veterinary sergeon
- Mikhail GipsiA red soldier
- Konstantin NazarenkoThe Lanky Fellow
Stills
Themes
joseph stalinmachine gunsiberiacommunist propagandarussian civil war (1918-21)red armysummary executiondeath of herosoviet union historypsychological warfareczechoslovak legionwhite army