The Return of Maxim
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.
Release Date
April 1, 1937Runtime
105 minGenres
DramaDirected by
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid TraubergWritten by
Grigori Kozintsev, Lev Slavin, Leonid TraubergLanguage
RussianBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
ReleasedCast
Boris Chirkov
MaksimValentina Kibardina
Natasha Artemieva, alias ElenaAnatoliy Kuznetsov
Worker's Deputy TurnyevAleksandr Zrazhevsky
Vassili Kuzmich Yerofeyev, workerAleksandr Chistyakov
Mishchenko, white-wooly mustached workerMikhail Zharov
Platon DymbaStepan Kayukov
DemaVasili Vanin
Bolshevik NikolaiVasili Merkuryev
Menshevik studentYuriy Tolubeev
strikebreakerNikolay Kryuchkov
soldierMariya Yarotskaya
Nikadim's wife