The Return of Maxim

Release Date: 1937-04-01

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.

Rating: 5 / 10

Cast

Boris Chirkov

as Maksim

Valentina Kibardina

as Natasha Artemieva, alias Elena

Anatoliy Kuznetsov

as Worker's Deputy Turnyev

Aleksandr Zrazhevsky

as Vassili Kuzmich Yerofeyev, worker

Aleksandr Chistyakov

as Mishchenko, white-wooly mustached worker