---
title: 'Chapaev (1934)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Georgi Vasilyev'
released: '1934-11-07'
runtime_minutes: 95
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'War'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'Soviet Union'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/chapaev-1934'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024966/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Chapaev (1934)

1934 · 95 min · Drama, War, History · Soviet Union

Original title: Чапаев

## Synopsis

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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Georgi Vasilyev](https://cinepixo.com/people/georgi-vasilyev), [Sergei Vasilyev](https://cinepixo.com/people/sergei-vasilyev)
- **Screenplay:** [Georgi Vasilyev](https://cinepixo.com/people/georgi-vasilyev), [Sergei Vasilyev](https://cinepixo.com/people/sergei-vasilyev), [Dmitry Furmanov](https://cinepixo.com/people/dmitry-furmanov), [Anna Furmanova](https://cinepixo.com/people/anna-furmanova)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Gavriil Popov](https://cinepixo.com/people/gavriil-popov)
- **Director of Photography:** [Aleksandr Ksenofontov](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandr-ksenofontov), [Aleksandr Sigaev](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandr-sigaev)

## Cast

- [Mikhail Rostovtsev](https://cinepixo.com/people/mikhail-rostovtsev)
- [Stepan Shkurat](https://cinepixo.com/people/stepan-shkurat)
- [Leonid Kmit](https://cinepixo.com/people/leonid-kmit) as Pyotr Isayev
- [Illarion Pevtsov](https://cinepixo.com/people/illarion-pevtsov)
- [Georgi Vasilyev](https://cinepixo.com/people/georgi-vasilyev)
- [Stepan Krylov](https://cinepixo.com/people/stepan-krylov)
- [Sergei Vasilyev](https://cinepixo.com/people/sergei-vasilyev)
- [Nikolai Simonov](https://cinepixo.com/people/nikolai-simonov)
- [Boris Chirkov](https://cinepixo.com/people/boris-chirkov)
- [Varvara Myasnikova](https://cinepixo.com/people/varvara-myasnikova) as Anka
- [Georgiy Zhzhonov](https://cinepixo.com/people/georgiy-zhzhonov)
- [Boris Babochkin](https://cinepixo.com/people/boris-babochkin) as Vasily Chapayev
- [Andrei Apsolon](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrei-apsolon)
- [Boris Blinov](https://cinepixo.com/people/boris-blinov) as Dmitry Furmanov

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/chapaev-1934
Film facts: Wikidata (Q153593); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.