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.[1][2]
The Return of Maxim | |
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Directed by | Grigori Kozintsev Leonid Trauberg |
Written by | Grigori Kozintsev Leonid Trauberg Lev Slavin |
Starring | Boris Chirkov |
Cinematography | Andrei Moskvin |
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Running time | 3082 meters (112 minutes) |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
In July 1914, the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks 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.