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.
- Created by
- Grigori KozintsevLeonid Trauberg
- Origin
- SU
- TMDB rating
- 5.3 / 10 · 10 votes
Cast
Boris ChirkovMaksim
Valentina KibardinaNatasha Artemieva, alias Elena
Anatoliy KuznetsovWorker's Deputy Turnyev
Aleksandr ZrazhevskyVassili Kuzmich Yerofeyev, worker
Aleksandr ChistyakovMishchenko, white-wooly mustached worker
Mikhail ZharovPlaton Dymba
Stepan KayukovDema
Vasili VaninBolshevik Nikolai
Aleksey BondiMenshevik
Vasili MerkuryevMenshevik student