Chapaev

1934 · 95 min · dir. Georgi Vasilyev, Sergei Vasilyev

Chapaev 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. Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.