The Commissar(Комиссар)
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Soviet Union · 1967
1h 50m
Director Aleksandr Askoldov
Starring Nonna Mordyukova, Rolan Bykov, Raisa Nedashkovskaya, Vasiliy Shukshin
Genre Drama, War
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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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