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The Return of Maxim (1937)

The Return of Maxim (1937)

Drama
Release Date: 1937, April 1
Directors: Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Lenfilm, Lenfilm, Lenfilm
Cast: Nikolay Kryuchkov, Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Vladimir Lukin, Yuriy Tolubeev, Boris Chirkov, Mikhail Zharov, Vasili Merkuryev, Yevgeni Nemchenko, Valentina Kibardina, Stepan Kayukov, Mariya Yarotskaya, Georgy Orlov

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.