Optimistic Tragedy (Russian: Оптимистическая трагедия, translit. Optimisticheskaya tragediya) is a 1963 Soviet film directed by Samson Samsonov.
It is based on the play An Optimistic Tragedy by Vsevolod Vishnevsky.
Optimistic Tragedy | |
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Directed by | Samson Samsonov |
Written by | Samson Samsonov Sofiya Vishnevetskaya |
Starring | Margarita Volodina Boris Andreyev Vyacheslav Tikhonov |
Cinematography | Vladimir Monakhov |
Music by | Vasiliy Dekhterev |
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Running time | 121 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
During Russian Revolution of 1917, the Marine squad, led by anarchist leader Vozhak starts the revolt. The Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party sends a woman Commissar to form Red Army battalion from the marines to take part in the Russian Civil War.
The film Optimistic Tragedy is based on the 1933 play An Optimistic Tragedy by Vsevolod Vishnevsky, set during the Russian Revolution.
Samson Samsonov directed the film.
It was shot in Sovscope 70 on black and white film stock. The prints were split into three films for exhibition in Kinopanorama 70 in some theatres.[citation needed]
The film was entered into competition at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.
The Kino International in East Berlin opened on 15 November 1963 with a grand opening premiere of the film.
Optimistic Tragedy was a Soviet blockbuster of 1963, with 46 million tickets sold.[citation needed]
The film was named Best Film of the Year and Margarita Volodina was named Best Actress of the Year by readers of the Soviet film magazine Sovetsky Ekran.[citation needed]
Richard Porton, in his 1999 book Film and the Anarchist Imagination, describes Optimistic Tragedy as "ingloriously didactic" and "typical of Soviet attempts to rationalize the brutal assault on the Kronstadt communards".
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