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Chapayev is with Us

Chapayev is with Us

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 31, 1941

Runtime

0h 8m

Genres

War

User Score

10%

Original Title

Чапаев с нами

Production Companies

Lenfilm

Director

Vladimir Petrov

Description

Short propaganda film released to raise army morale during first months of war. Civil War hero and Red Army commander Vasily Chapayev (killed in 1919 by White Army officers then drowned in the Ural river) swims ashore but it's the summer of 1941. Chapayev asks who are Soviets fighting off this time, hears that it's Germans once again and then gives an inspiring speech. He is played by Boris Babochkin who famously portrayed Chapayev in 1934 biopic.