The Commissar
7.5
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.
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12 people
Nonna Mordyukova
Klavdia Vavilova
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Aleksandr Askoldov Director · Vasiliy Grossman Author Alfred Schnittke Composer
First release June 6, 1967 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Production Gorky Film Studios
Production
Mosfilm
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Gorky Film Studios
Production · Studio
Russia · Russia
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Original title
Комиссар
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · June 6, 1967
Limited theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
France
September 14, 1988 · Theatrical
Netherlands
February 9, 1989 · Theatrical · Re=release
Russia
June 17, 1988 · Theatrical
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