Released 1934. Duration: 92 min. Directed by Georgii Vasilev, Sergei Vasilev. Starring: Georgii Vasilev, Stepan Shkurat, Leonid Kmit, Georgiy Zhzhenov, Boris Chirkov, Nikolay Smirnov, Boris Blinov, Varvara Myasnikova, Boris Babochkin, Vyacheslav Volkov, Illarion Pevtsov.This film is based on a book about Vasili Ivanovich Chapaev (1887-1919), who was the Commander of the 25th Division of the Red Army. Chapaev was an uneducated peasant and a decorated hero in World War I and the Russian Civil War. This man of action was fighting on the side of the poor; his troops consisted of peasants just like him. Unable to write, he could brilliantly demonstrate various battle tactics by moving potatoes around on the table. Incredibly intelligent though uneducated, he never lost a battle against the more experienced generals of the Tsar's Army.
