Chapaev (film)
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| Directed by | Georgi Vasilyev Sergei Vasilyev |
| Based on | Чапаев by Dmitri Furmanov |
| Starring | Boris Babochkin Boris Blinov Varvara Myasnikova Leonid Kmit |
| Music by | Gavriil Popov |
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Running time | 91 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. 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.
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin considered Chapaev to be the best film in Soviet cinematography and watched it more than 30 times between 1934 and 1936. President Vladimir Putin also claimed Chapaev to be his favorite film.