Movielogr
The Return of Maxim (1937)
Directed by Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
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.
Length 105 minutes
Actors
Boris Chirkov | Valentina Kibardina | Anatoliy Kuznetsov | Aleksandr Zrazhevsky | Aleksandr Chistyakov | Mikhail Zharov | Stepan Kayukov | Vasili Vanin | Aleksey Bondi | Vasiliy Merkurev | Yuriy Tolubeev | Nikolay Kryuchkov | Mariya Yarotskaya