Still from the Soviet film 'Chapaev', directed by the Vasilyev brothers for Lenfilm. The plot is based on the novel of the same name by Dmitri Furmanov, a Russian writer and Bolshevik commissar who fought together with Chapaev. B. Babochkin as Chapaev. 1934 Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies