Released:
1937-04-01

Overview:
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.

Directors:
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg

Runtime:
1h 45min

Genre:
Drama

• 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