Where to Watch The Ballad of the Commissar

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Released , 'The Ballad of the Commissar' stars Yuriy Nazarov, Talgat Nigmatulin, Galina Polskikh, Viktor Shulgin The movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 5 min, and received a user score of (out of 100) on TMDb, which assembled reviews from top users.

Interested in knowing what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "The events unfold during the years of the Civil War. Commissar Fadeytsev once spared the life of a White officer, Chugureyev. Now, in the days of the counter-revolutionary uprising, Chugureyev, sent by his command to a remote island, encounters Fadeytsev, who is hiding in the house of a gamekeeper named Maksim. The gamekeeper is sentenced to hang, and the sentence is carried out. Fadeytsev manages to escape captivity, but being on an island, he knows full well that he won’t get far from the enemy..." .