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An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
Keywords
joseph stalin
machine gun
siberia
communist propaganda
russian civil war (1918-21)
red army
summary execution
death of hero
soviet union history
psychological warfare
czechoslovak legion
white army
Casts

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
Victor Yablonsky
Cossack

Georgi Zhzhyonov
Teresha
Kasim Mukhutdinov
Red army soldier in Chapaev division
Crews
Anna Furmanov
Writer
Isaak Makhlis
Art Direction
Yuri Muzykant
Assistant Director
Gavriil Popov
Original Music Composer
Anton Andzhan
Makeup Artist
Aleksandr Ksenofontov
Director of Photography
Alexandr Sigaev
Director of Photography
Aleksandr Bekker
Sound

Sergey Vasilev
Director

Georgi Vasilyev
Director

Sergey Vasilev
Writer

Georgi Vasilyev
Writer
Dimitri Furmanov
Novel
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