The Return of Maxim (1937)
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.
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Boris Chirkov as Maksim |
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Valentina Kibardina as Natasha Artemieva, alias Elena |
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Anatoliy Kuznetsov as Worker's Deputy Turnyev |
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Aleksandr Zrazhevsky as Vassili Kuzmich Yerofeyev, worker |
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Aleksandr Chistyakov as Mishchenko, white-wooly mustached worker |
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Mikhail Zharov as Platon Dymba |
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Stepan Kayukov as Dema |
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Vasili Vanin as Bolshevik Nikolai |
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Aleksey Bondi as Menshevik |
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Vasili Merkuryev as Menshevik student |
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Yuriy Tolubeev as strikebreaker |
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Nikolay Kryuchkov as soldier |
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Mariya Yarotskaya as Nikadim's wife |
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Georgy Orlov as Markov the 2-nd |
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Yevgeni Nemchenko as Young man in the billiard room |
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Vladimir Lukin as Revolutionary |
| Camera | Andrey Moskvin | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Dmitri Shostakovich | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Grigori Kozintsev | Writer |
| Writing | Lev Slavin | Writer |
| Writing | Leonid Trauberg | Writer |
| Directing | Grigori Kozintsev | Director |
| Directing | Leonid Trauberg | Director |
| Art | Evgeny Eney | Production Design |
| Sound | Ilya Volk | Sound Director |
| Sound | G. Khutoryanskiy | Sound Director |
| Directing | Nadezhda Kosheverova | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Ilya Frez | Assistant Director |
| Production | M. Gerltovskiy | Production Assistant |
| Production | A. Gurvich | Production Assistant |
| Art | Vasiliy Vlasov | Production Design |
| Editing | Vladimir Sukhobokov | Editor |
