The Commissar

Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.

• Aleksandr AskoldovDirector
• Aleksandr AskoldovWriter
• Alfred SchnittkeOriginal Music Composer

• Nonna MordyukovaKlavdia Vavilova
• Rolan BykovYefim Mahazannik
• Rayisa NedashkivskaMaria Mahazannik
• Vasiliy ShukshinThe Commandant
• Lyudmila VolynskayaThe Grandmother
• Sergey NikonenkoCast
• Otar KoberidzeCast
• Leonid ReutovCast