The Return of Maxim
1937The 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.
Acted in
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
Mariya Yarotskaya
as Nikadim's wife