- BFI identifier340494
- Date1987 (Release)
- Production countryUSSR
- Production company
- SynopsisWoman Commissar, fighting with the Red Army in the 1920s gives up to have a baby and is transformed by the experience, but eventually resumes the fight. (Synopsis)
- Work historyNot released until 1988, following its unscheduled screening at the 1987 Moscow Film Festival.
- Genre
- CategoryFiction
- Credits
- CastNonna Mordiukova (Clavdia Vavilova, the Commissar)
Rolan Bykov (Yefim)
Raisa Niedashkovskaya (Maria)
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Title
KOMISSAR (Original)
COMMISSAR (Alternative)
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