The Return of Maxim (1937)
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.
- Released
- 1937-04-01
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
- TMDB rating
- 5.3/10 from 10 votes
Cast
- Boris Chirkov as Maksim
- Valentina Kibardina as Natasha Artemieva, alias Elena
- Anatoliy Kuznetsov as Worker's Deputy Turnyev
- Aleksandr Zrazhevsky as Vassili Kuzmich Yerofeyev, worker
- Aleksandr Chistyakov as Mishchenko, white-wooly mustached worker
- Mikhail Zharov as Platon Dymba
- Stepan Kayukov as Dema
- Vasili Vanin as Bolshevik Nikolai
- Aleksey Bondi as Menshevik
- Vasili Merkuryev as Menshevik student
- Yuriy Tolubeev as strikebreaker
- Nikolay Kryuchkov as soldier