The Commissar
Overview
Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.
Cast

Nonna Mordyukova
Klavdia Vavilova

Rolan Bykov
Yefim Mahazannik

Rayisa Nedashkivska
Maria Mahazannik

Vasiliy Shukshin
The Commandant

Lyudmila Volynskaya
The Grandmother

Sergey Nikonenko

Otar Koberidze

Leonid Reutov