The Commissar

Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.

Top Cast

Nonna MordyukovaKlavdia Vavilova

Rolan BykovYefim Mahazannik

Rayisa NedashkivskaMaria Mahazannik

Vasiliy ShukshinThe Commandant

Lyudmila VolynskayaThe Grandmother

Sergey Nikonenko

Otar Koberidze

Leonid Reutov