P.S. Chapaev and his assistants Petka and Anka are the popular characters of hundreds of Russian jokes.
The biggest box office success in Russian theatres in the 1930s, Chapayev sold over fifty million tickets.
Reputedly was the favorite movie of Joseph Stalin. When the Stalin Prizes were established in 1941, the dictator made sure this film was given several awards retroactively.
The film contains 820 shots.
Won the first prize at the Moscow International Movie Festival 1935, of which Sergei Eisenstein was the chairman.