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.
as Maksim
as Natasha Artemieva, alias Elena
as Worker's Deputy Turnyev
as Vassili Kuzmich Yerofeyev, worker
as Mishchenko, white-wooly mustached worker
as Platon Dymba
as Dema
as Bolshevik Nikolai
as Menshevik
as Menshevik student
as strikebreaker
as soldier
as Nikadim's wife