This ideologically charged film as a typical sample of Soviet version of history portrays the events in Ukraine in 1921 after the defeat of Ukrainian liberation struggle and the occupation of the country by invading Bolshevik hordes. The Bolsheviks are good guys and Ukrainian rebels refusing to submit to a new, this time Soviet, slavery are portrayed as bandits and brigands fighting against their own people.
Unfortunately the movie The Commissars is not yet available on HBO Max.
Directing | Mykola Mashchenko | Director |
Writing | Mykola Mashchenko | Screenplay |
Writing | Boris Tarasenko | Screenplay |
Camera | Oleg Martynov | Director of Photography |
Sound | Ivan Karabyts | Music |
Editing | Natalia Akayomova | Editor |
Writing | Yuriy Lybedynskyi | Novel |