We Are from Kronstadt

We Are from Kronstadt

1936 · 89 min · ★ 5.0 · Drama, History, War

In 1919, during the post-revolution Russian Civil War, a naval detachment made up of communist Reds defends the strategic city of Petrograd from the White Russian counterrevolutionary forces

Directed by Efim Dzigan · Written by Vsevolod Vishnevsky

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