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Directed by | Georgi Vasilyev Sergei Vasilyev |
Written by | Dmitri Furmanov (book) |
Starring | Boris Babochkin Boris Blinov Varvara Myasnikova Leonid Kmit |
Music by | Gavriil Popov |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Chapaev (Russian: Чапаев, IPA: [tɕɪˈpaɪf]) is a 1934 Soviet biographical war film, directed by the Vasilyev brothers for Lenfilm.[1]
The film is a heavily fictionalised biography of Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev (1887–1919), a Red Army notable commander of the Russian Civil War. It is based on the novel of the same name by Dmitri Furmanov, a Russian writer and Bolshevik commissar who fought together with Chapayev.[2]
According to president Vladimir Putin's statement in 2014, Chapaev is his favorite film of all time.[3]