Chapaev (1934)

Original title

Чапаев

Directed by

Georgi Vasilyev, Sergei Vasilyev

Genre

drama film, war film, biographical film, historical film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 33 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Soviet film tells the story of Vasily Chapayev, a Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War. It focuses on his military leadership and his interactions with a Bolshevik commissar.

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What happens

Chapaev (Russian: Чапаев, IPA: [tɕɪˈpaɪf]) is a 1934 Soviet biographical war film, directed by the Vasilyev brothers for Lenfilm. A heavily-fictionalised biography of Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev (1887–1919), a notable Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War, it is based on the novel of the same name by Dmitry Furmanov, a Russian writer and Bolshevik commissar who fought together with Chapayev. Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin considered Chapaev to be the best film in Soviet cinematography and watched it more than 30 times between 1934 and 1936. President Vladimir Putin also proclaimed Chapaev to be his favorite film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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