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The Return of Maxim (Russian: Возвращение Максима) 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.
Original Release
05/23/1937
US Release
11/01/1937
Cast
Name | Character |
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Boris Chirkov | Maksim |
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 |
Vasili Vanin | Editor of Pravda |
Yuriy Tolubeev | Loudmouthed Worker in Natasha's Office |
Aleksey Bondi | Menshevik Troublemaker |
Mikhail Zharov | Platon Vassilievich Dymba, billiards braggart |
Nikolay Kryuchkov |
Directors
Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Writers
Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, Lev Slavin
Cast
Name | Character |
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Boris Chirkov | Maksim |
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 |
Vasili Vanin | Editor of Pravda |
Yuriy Tolubeev | Loudmouthed Worker in Natasha's Office |
Aleksey Bondi | Menshevik Troublemaker |
Mikhail Zharov | Platon Vassilievich Dymba, billiards braggart |
Nikolay Kryuchkov | |
Vasiliy Merkurev | |
Mikheil Gelovani | |
Stepan Kayukov | |
Nikolai Chistyakov | Deputat Gosdumy Markov vtoroiy |
Georgiy Kranert | Deputat Gosdumy Purishkevich |
Leonid Lyubashevsky | |
Maksim Shtraukh | |
Mikhail Tarkhanov |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Grigoriy Kozintsev | Producer |
Leonid Trauberg | Producer |