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The Return of Maxim
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Wikipedia article
'The Return of Maxim' is a 1937 Soviet drama film directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, 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.
Cast
* Boris Chirkov - Maksim
* Valentina Kibardina - Natasha
* Anatoli Kuznetsov - Worker's Deputy Turayev
* Aleksandr Zrazhevsky - Vassili Kuzmich Yerofeyev, worker
* Aleksandr Chistyakov - Mishchenko, white-wooly mustached worker
* Vasili Vanin - Nikolai
* Yuri Tolubeyev - Loudmouthed Worker in Natasha's Office
* Aleksandr Bondi - Menshevik Troublemaker
* Mikhail Zharov - Platon Vassilievich Dymba
* Nikolai Kryuchkov
* Vasili Merkuryev
* Mikheil Gelovani
* Stepan Kayukov
* Leonid Lyubashevsky
* Maksim Shtraukh
* Mikhail Tarkhanov
References
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