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1934
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.
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The greatest icon of Soviet popular culture was larger-than-life personality based on the real historical figure. That figure was Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev (sometimes transliterated as Chapaev), Red Army commander whose life was subject or inspiration for numerous works of literature and arts. The work which contributed to Chapayev’s iconic status the most was *Chapaev*, 1934 war biopic directed by Georgi Vasilyev a…More
