Baltiytsi (Балтийцы) (1937)
1937 · Feature film · 73 min · dir. Aleksandr Faintsimmer
- Drama
- War
- historical film
Synopsis
Men of the Sea also known as Baltic Sailors is a 1938 Soviet war film directed by Aleksandr Faintsimmer. The film is about the Bolshevik Kronstadt sailors' 1919 defense of Petrograd from the White Army during the Russian Civil War.
Synopsis from Wikipedia
Details
- Director
- Aleksandr Faintsimmer
- Writer
- Aleksey Zinovyev
- Composer
- Vladimir Shcherbachov
- Cinematography
- Svyatoslav Belyayev
- Studio
- Belgoskino
- Released
- 1938-01-02
- Running time
- 73 minutes
Cast & crew
Aleksandr Faintsimmer Director- Vasiliy Yakovlevich Sofronov
- Leonid Sergeevich Vivʹen
Boris Livanov
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Poor man's Potemkin? · sciwriter · 2010-06-08
Of course this film doesn’t hold a candle to the masterpiece, “Battleship Potemkin” about the 1905 revolution. This movie takes place after the 1917 revolution, and the Bolsheviks controlled the Baltic fleet as welkl as the Odessa steps.
