Overview
The second part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. In July 1914, the Bolsheviks and Mensehviks compete for representation of the working-class in the Duma. Maksim, who just returned from exile, calls the workers to strike as a protest against the firing of six of their colleagues. The traitor Platon Dymba assaults Maksim, wounding him severely. When the strike unfolds the workers demonstrate by the thousands, the news of the outbreak of World War I suddenly arrives. Maksim gets drafted.
DirectorGrigori Kozintsev
WritersGrigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, Lev Slavin
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Boris Chirkov
Maksim
Valentina Kibardina
Natasha Artemieva, alias Elena
Anatoliy Kuznetsov
Worker's Deputy Turnyev
Aleksandr Zrazhevsky
Vassili Kuzmich Yerofeyev, worker
Aleksandr Chistyakov
Mishchenko, white-wooly mustached worker
Mikhail Zharov
Platon Dymba
Stepan Kayukov
Dema
Vasili Vanin
Bolshevik Nikolai
Aleksey Bondi
Menshevik
Vasili Merkuryev
Menshevik student
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LanguageRussian
Production companiesLenfilm