Plot synopsis

1919. The Civil War is underway. In the Ural steppes, the detachments of division commander Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev confront the White Guards. By order of the party, Commissar Furmanov is sent to Chapaev so that he can restore order among the disorganized mass of Red Army soldiers. Under Furmanov's influence, iron discipline is established in the detachments. At first, Chapaev is distrustful of Furmanov, but gradually, during the battles, the division commander and the commissar become comrades in arms. Now they lead the division together to victory over the enemy.____________________________________

Commentaries

Beyond the canon: Soviet cinema, , 2024

Vingt grandes réalisations des studios Lenfilm, Alexandra GOUZEVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2024

Les dix meilleurs films soviétiques des années 1930 (Vidéos), Eleonora GOLDMAN, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2023

Les quinze films étrangers et soviétiques préférés de Joseph Staline, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2022

La guerre dans le cinéma soviétique, Éric AUNOBLE, ehne.fr, 2021

Лента длиною в эпоху. Шедевры советского кино, Neya ZORKAYA, Bely Gorod, 2017

Construire, déconstruire, reconstruire au cinéma le mythe de la femme soviétique, Valéry KOSSOV, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016

Эволюция образа Белого движения в отечественном и зарубежном игровом кинематографе звукового периода., Aleksandr FEDOROV, МОО «Информация для всех», 2015

Второй план в советском кино, Evgeniy MARGOLIT, seance.ru, 2012

Chapaev, Julian GRAFFY, I.B. Tauris, 2010

Cinéma et régimes autoritaires au XXe siècle. Ecrans sous influence. Le festin pendant la peste, Françoise NAVAILH, kinoglaz.fr, 2010

The Image of Germans in Russian Cultural Space, Evgeniy MARGOLIT, Kinokultura, 2009

Reviews on Kinopoisk

Selected in the following festivals or events :

- Childhood and Soviet cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2026

- Official list of Russian films for school programs, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025

- Official list of Russian films for school programs, (kinoglaz.fr), 2024

- Russian or Soviet films awarded at Berlin, Cannes or Venice, (kinoglaz.fr), 2024

- International Festival of Archive Films, Moscow (Russia), 2024

- Best Soviet films according to Russia Beyond, (kinoglaz.fr), 2023

- KARO.Art International Festival of Cinéma d'auteur, Different cities (Russia), 2022

- Festival of Russian cinema in Nice, Nice (France), 2017

- Institut Lumière - Centenaire de la révolution d'octobre 1917, Lyon (France), 2017

- Pessac International History Film Festival, Pessac (France), 2009

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2008

- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2007

- Europalia Russia 2005, Brussels (kinoglaz.fr), 2005

- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2001

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 1935

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