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Chapaev
Also known as Chapayev
1934 Soviet war film by Georgi and Sergei Vasilyev
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5.9An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
Released: 1934-11-0793 minDir: Sergey VasilevDrama, History, War
Stream on: Klassiki
Cast
- Boris Babochkin as Chapayev
- Leonid Kmit as Petka
- Varvara Myasnikova as Anka
- Boris Blinov as Furmanov
- Illarion Pevtsov as Borozdin
- Nikolai Simonov as Zhikharev
Themes
- joseph stalin
- machine gun
- siberia
- communist propaganda
~5 min read
Article
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.