Top Cast
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Vasiliy Zaychikov
Commissar Vasili Martinov
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Oleg Zhakov
Regiment Commander Draudin
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Georgi Bushuyev
Artyom Balashov
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Raisa Yesipova
Yekaterina Tiyman
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Nikolay Ivakin
A Red Army Soldier
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Pyotr Kirillov
Seaman Valentin Bezprozvanny
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Mikhail Gurinenko
Misha, the cabin boy
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Fyodor Seleznyov
A White Army Soldier
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Pyotr Sobolevsky
A Lieutenant
Overview
In 1919, during the post-revolution Russian Civil War, a naval detachment made up of communist Reds defends the strategic city of Petrograd from the White Russian counterrevolutionary forces
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