KOMISSAR

Film Year: 1967
AFI Fest Year(s): 1988
US Release: 06/17/1988
Project Type: Feature Film
Country: Soviet Union
Film Genres: Drama
AKA: Commissar, Die Kommissarin
Language(s): Russian
Summary:   The female commissar of a Russian town taken over by the Red Army becomes pregnant and is forced by her superiors to stay with a poor Jewish family until she gives birth.
Company
NameCreditCredited As
New Yorker Films Domestic Theatrical Distributor
Artificial Eye Film Company, Ltd. Foreign Theatrical Distributor (United Kingdom)
Films Cosmos Foreign Theatrical Distributor (France)
Gorky Studio Production Company
Goskino Productions Foreign Theatrical Distributor (USSR)
International Film Exchange Domestic Theatrical Distributor (IFEX)
Sovexportfilm Worldwide Distribution Sales
Actor
NameCreditCredited As
Nonna Mordyukova Klavdia Vavilova--The Kommissarin
Rolan Bykov Yefim Magazanik--Judge Handweker
Raisa Niedashkovskaya Maria--Magazankik's Wife
Ludmilla Volynskaya Deren Mutter
Vasili Shukshin Commander
Ludmila Volynskaya Actor
Lyuba Katz Actor
Pavlik Levin Actor
Dima Kleinman Actor
Igor Fishman Actor
Marta Bratkova Actor
O Koberidze Actor
L Reyutov Actor
V Shakhov Actor
 
Director
NameCreditCredited As
Alexander Askoldov Director
 
Producer
NameCreditCredited As
V Levin Producer
V Grigorev Producer
 
Writer
NameCreditCredited As
Vasily Grossman from story "V gorode Berdiceve" ("In the Town of Berdichev"))
Alexander Askoldov screenplay
 
Editor
NameCreditCredited As
Alexander Askoldov Editor
V Isaeva Editor
N Loginova Editor
S Lyashinshaya Editor
 
Camera, Film & Tape
NameCreditCredited As
Valery Ginzberg Director of Photography