The Return of Maxim
First aired on Apr 1, 1937
Runtime: 105 mins
50%
Genres: Drama
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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Featured Crew
Andrey Moskvin | Director of Photography
Dmitri Shostakovich | Original Music Composer
Grigori Kozintsev | Writer
Leonid Trauberg | Writer
Lev Slavin | Writer
Grigori Kozintsev | Director