The Return of Maxim 1937 Directed by Grigori Kozintsev , Leonid Trauberg Возвращение Максима

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.

Production Country Soviet Union
Language Russian
Spoken Language Russian
Gnere Drama
Production Company Lenfilm
Release Date 1 April 1937
105 mins
Cast
Valentina Kibardina Natasha Artemieva, alias Elena
Anatoliy Kuznetsov Worker's Deputy Turnyev
Aleksandr Zrazhevsky Vassili Kuzmich Yerofeyev, worker
Aleksandr Chistyakov Mishchenko, white-wooly mustached worker
Mikhail Zharov Platon Dymba
Vasili Vanin Bolshevik Nikolai
Aleksey Bondi Menshevik
Vasili Merkuryev Menshevik student
Yuriy Tolubeev strikebreaker
Mariya Yarotskaya Nikadim's wife
Georgy Orlov Markov the 2-nd
Yevgeni Nemchenko Young man in the billiard room