The Commissars

Drama, History

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Mykola Mashchenko

Status Released

Release Date 1971-07-01

Storyline

This ideologically charged film as a typical sample of Soviet version of history portrays the events in Ukraine in 1921 after the defeat of Ukrainian liberation struggle and the occupation of the country by invading Bolshevik hordes. The Bolsheviks are good guys and Ukrainian rebels refusing to submit to a new, this time Soviet, slavery are portrayed as bandits and brigands fighting against their own people.