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The Commissar (Komissar)

К/с им. Горького, 1967

Director: Askoldov Alexander
Script: Askoldov Alexander
Camera: Ginzburg Valery
Music by: Schnitke Alfred

Genre: Period Drama
Running time: 110 min.

Description

A female commissar named Vavilova has to leave her detachment for a while. She is expecting a baby… Staying with the Jewish family of a petty artisan, who has many children of his own, and observing the everyday life of those poor but always ready to help people, Madame Vavilova, as she is called by the head of the family, Yefim Magazannik, discovers a hitherto unknown to her world of human joys, the happy pleasures of motherhood and family life. But soon she has to return to the realities of war and leave her newborn son with her new friends…

Cast

Mordiukova Nonna, Bykov Rolan, Nedashkovskaya Raissa, Volynskaya Liudmila, Shukshin Vassily, Kats Lyuba, Levin Pavlik, Kleiman Dima, Bratkova Martha, Fishman Igor, Nikonenko Sergei, Koberidze Otar

Awards

• Special Jury Prize, FIPRESCI Prize and Ecumenical Jury Prize at the West Berlin IFF, 1988

Special features

• Interviews with Script and Director A. Askoldov, Actress R. Nedashkovskaya
• Videomaterials from the archives of A. Askoldov: “Nonna Mordiukova, Rolan Bykov, Raissa Nedashkovskaya – Remembering about the making of the film”
• The Press
• Awards
• Letters
• Documents
• V. Grossman’ Biography
• Photo album “Recognition”
• Filmographies

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