An Optimistic Tragedy 1963

Margarita Volodina

Commissar

Boris Andreyev

Vozhak

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Aleksei

Vsevolod Sanayev

Siplyy

Orvo Björninen

Vainonen

Vsevolod Safonov

Bering

Ivan Zhevago

boatswain

Daniil Netrebin

Ryaboy

Grigory Mikhaylov

old sailor

Pyotr Sobolevsky

ship's doctor

Erast Garin

Vozhachok

Oleg Strizhenov

first officer

Gleb Strizhenov

second officer

Aleksey Glazyrin

presenter

Valentin Belokhvostik

presenter

Iosif Vankov

tattooed sailor

Veronika Buzhinskaya

woman in black

Viktor Shulgin

tall sailor

Ivan Bychkov

sailor

Ivan Bondar

sailor

Vladimir Grave

one-eyed anarchist

Viktor Demidovskiy

anarchist

Evgeniy Zosimov

tall sailor

Yuriy Kireev

sailor

Leonid Knyazev

sailor

Nikita Kondratyev

tall anarchist

Pyotr Kononykhin

sailor

Aleksei Milyukhin

sailor

Vadim Novikov

interventionist

Dmitriy Orlovskiy

old sailor

Vladimir Prikhodko

sailor

Anatoliy Sakhnovskiy

anarchist

Semen Svashenko

sailor

Aleksei Stroyev

anarchist

Nikolai Khryashchikov

sailor

Aleksey Bakhar

sailor (uncredited)

Nikolai Sibeykin

sailor (uncredited)

Mikhail Bocharov

sailor (uncredited)

Artur Nishchyonkin

sailor (uncredited)

Manefa Sobolevskaya

fareweller woman (uncredited)

Natalya Surovegina

fareweller girl (uncredited)

Samson Samsonov

Director

Samson Samsonov

Writer

Sofiya Vishnevetskaya

Writer

Vsevolod Vishnevsky

Theatre Play

Sergei Voronkov

Production Design

Aleksandr Klimenko

Production Design

Ippolit Novoderyozhkin

Production Design

Evgeniy Shvedov

Assistant Camera

Igor Bogdanov

Camera Operator

Vladimir Monakhov

Director of Photography

Eberhard Borkmann

Assistant Camera

Vladimir Zakharchuk

Camera Operator

Igor Felitsyn

Camera Operator

Valentin Perelyotov

Costume Design

Sergei Kalinin

Makeup Artist

Antonina Kamagorova

Editor

Grigori Korenblyum

Sound

Vasily Dekhterev

Original Music Composer

Veronika Dudarova

Conductor