The Twenty Six Comissars (1966)
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Top billed cast
Tengiz ArchvadzeCaparidze- Gennadi BoytsovFioletov
Vladimir SamoylovShaumyan
Mher MkrtchyanГочи
Efim Kopelyanгенерал Бахчаров
Semyon SokolovskyPetrov
Malik DadashevAzizbeyov
Valerian VinogradovPolukhin
Eldaniz ZeynalovVazirov
Ivan KosykhZevin
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