
An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
Cast

Boris Babochkin
Chapayev

Leonid Kmit
Petka

Varvara Myasnikova
Anka

Boris Blinov
Furmanov
Illarion Pevtsov
Borozdin

Nikolai Simonov
Zhikharev

Boris Chirkov
Peasant

Stepan Shkurat
Borozdin's striker
Vyacheslav Volkov
Yelan

Emil Gal
Tall veterinary sergeon
Mikhail Gipsi
A red soldier
Konstantin Nazarenko
The Lanky Fellow

Mikhail Rostovtsev
Short veterinary sergeon

Georgi Vasilyev
A white officer
Elena Volyntseva
Peasant woman

Viktor Yablonskiy
Cossack

Georgi Zhzhyonov
Teresha

Kostiantyn Mukhutdinov
Red army soldier in Chapaev division
Crew

Sergey Vasilev
Director, Screenplay

Georgi Vasilyev
Director, Screenplay
Yuri Muzykant
Co-Director
Dimitri Furmanov
Book
Anna Furmanova
Book, Script Consultant
Aleksandr Ksenofontov
Director of Photography
Alexandr Sigaev
Director of Photography

Mikhail Shostak
Executive Producer
Isaak Makhlis
Production Design

Anton Andzhan
Makeup Artist
Aleksandr Bekker
Sound Recordist

Gavriil Popov
Original Music Composer
Ivan Kutyakov
Script Consultant
D. Kovalev
Script Consultant
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