The Return of Maxim

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

April 1, 1937

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Soviet Union

Production

Lenfilm

Cast

Vasili Vanin,Boris Chirkov,Nikolay Kryuchkov,Valentina Kibardina,Vasili Merkuryev,Stepan Kayukov,Yevgeni Nemchenko,Georgy Orlov,Aleksandr Zrazhevsky,Aleksandr Chistyakovand 7 more

Director

Leonid Trauberg,Grigori Kozintsev

Writer

Lev Slavin,Leonid Trauberg,Grigori Kozintsev

Cinematography

Andrey Moskvin

Music

Dmitri Shostakovich

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0029740