The Return of Maxim

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

External links

Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema By Peter Rollberg

1937 films

Lenfilm films

Soviet black-and-white films

Films directed by Grigori Kozintsev

Films directed by Leonid Trauberg

Films scored by Dmitri Shostakovich

Articles containing video clips

Soviet drama films

1937 drama films

Films set in 1914

1930s Russian-language films