The Return of Maxim

The story

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.

In the same saga

Maxim Trilogy Collection

In release order

The Youth of Maxim

1935

This film

The Return of Maxim

1937

The Vyborg Side

1939

Cast

B Boris ChirkovMaksim V Valentina KibardinaNatasha Artemieva, alias Elena A Anatoliy KuznetsovWorker's Deputy Turnyev A Aleksandr ZrazhevskyVassili Kuzmich Yerofeyev, worker A Aleksandr ChistyakovMishchenko, white-wooly mustached worker M Mikhail ZharovPlaton Dymba S Stepan KayukovDema V Vasili VaninBolshevik Nikolai A Aleksey BondiMenshevik V Vasili MerkuryevMenshevik student Y Yuriy Tolubeevstrikebreaker N Nikolay Kryuchkovsoldier

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M Mariya YarotskayaNikadim's wife G Georgy OrlovMarkov the 2-nd Y Yevgeni NemchenkoYoung man in the billiard room V Vladimir LukinRevolutionary L Lyudmila ShabalinaWorker's Wife V Valentin Kiselyov