1918 year. A woman commissar has been appointed from the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party to the Russian warship Gromoboi, which is ruled by anarchist sailors. The leader of the ship is the anarchist Vozhak. The Commissioner was instructed to reorganize the naval detachment into the First Sailor Regiment. She faces a difficult task: to win the authority of the sailors and eradicate anarchy. Of the remaining officers on the ship — lieutenant Bering, who served in the tsarist fleet on the battleship "Emperor Paul I". He must become the commander and, together with the sent commissar, lead the regiment to the front in the Black Sea region.
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Margarita Volodina
commissar
Boris Andreyev
vozhak
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Aleksei
Vsevolod Sanayev
Siplyy
Orvo Björninen
Vainonen
Vsevolod Safonov
Bering
Ivan Zhevago
boatswain
Daniil Netrebin
Ryaboy
Grigory Mikhaylov
old sailor
Pyotr Sobolevsky
ship's doctor
Erast Garin
vozhachok
Oleg Strizhenov
first officer
Gleb Strizhenov
second officer
Aleksey Glazyrin
presenter
Valentin Belokhvostik
presenter
Samson Samsonov
Director
Samson Samsonov
Writer
Sofiya Vishnevetskaya
Writer
Aleksandr Yablochkin
Executive Producer
Vladimir Monakhov
Director of Photography
Vasily Dekhteryov
Original Music Composer
Aleksandra Kamagorova
Editor
Valentin Perelyotov
Costume Design
Sergey Voronkov
Production Design
Ippolit Novoderyozhkin
Production Design
