The Return of Maxim

Overview

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.

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Maxim Trilogy Collection

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Cast

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

Mikhail Zharov

Platon Dymba

Stepan Kayukov

Dema

Vasili Vanin

Bolshevik Nikolai

Aleksey Bondi

Menshevik

Vasili Merkuryev

Menshevik student