Moonzund () is a 1988 Soviet war film based on Valentin Pikul's 1970 novel of the same name. "Moonzund" refers to the West Estonian archipelago, where the Battle of Moon Sound took place during World War I.
Plot
Epic film set during the First World War brightly illustrates the struggles of Russian Empire in the years 1915–1917. The hardships of war cause major social and political unrest in the Tsarist Russia. Communist propaganda provokes conflicts between classes causing clashes and un-subordination aboard battleships of Russian Imperial Navy and on locations in Tallinn, Kronstadt and Saint Petersburg. Torn by internal class struggle, Russian Navy is weakened and loses major battles in the Baltic theater of war. Against this background, the commanding admirals of the Russian Navy are powerless witnesses of the tragic collapse of the fleet in terms of nascent revolutionary events of 1917. Most film characters are officers and sailors of the Baltic Fleet.
Cast
Oleg Menshikov as Captain Sergey Arten'ev
Vladimir Gostyukhin as Semenchuk
Lyudmila Nilskaya as spy Anna "Klara Georgievna" Revelskaya
Nikolai Karachentsov as officer Von Knupfer
Yury Belyayev as Admiral Kolchak
Boris Klyuyev as Von Grapf
Vija Artmane as Frau Milch
Aleksei Buldakov as Portnyagin, sailor
Vladimir Baranov as orderly Platov
Yevgenia Dobrovolskaya as Irina Artenyeva
Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev as Admiral Nikolai Essen
Sergei Garmash as Pavel Dybenko
Vladimir Yeryomin as Leonid Deichman, Mechanical Engineer
Vladimir Golovin as von Den
Petr Shelokhonov as Captain Andreev
Victor Kostetskiy as commander of the cruiser "Rurik"