The Return of Maxim is a 1937 Soviet

Cinema of Russia

The cinema of Russia began in the Russian Empire, widely developed under the Soviet and in the years following the fall of the Soviet system, the Russian film industry would remain internationally recognised...

 film

Film

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 directed by Grigori Kozintsev

Grigori Kozintsev

Grigori Mikhaylovich Kozintsev was a Jewish Ukrainian, Soviet Russian theatre and film director. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1964.He studied in the Imperial Academy of Arts...

 and Leonid Trauberg

Leonid Trauberg

Leonid Zakharovich Trauberg was a Jewish Ukrainian Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1924 and 1961 and was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941.-Filmography:* The Adventures of Oktyabrina ...

, 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.

Cast

• Boris Chirkov
  Boris Chirkov
  Boris Petrovich Chirkov was a Soviet actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1928 and 1975. In 1941, he was awarded the Stalin Prize; in 1975, he was awarded the Hero of Socialist Labour.-Selected filmography:* Alone * Chapaev...
  
   - Maksim
• Valentina Kibardina - Natasha
• Anatoli Kuznetsov - Worker's Deputy Turayev
• Aleksandr Zrazhevsky - Vassili Kuzmich Yerofeyev, worker
• Aleksandr Chistyakov - Mishchenko, white-wooly mustached worker
• Vasili Vanin - Nikolai
• Yuri Tolubeyev
  Yuri Tolubeyev
  Yuri Vladimirovich Tolubeyev was a Soviet theatrical and cinema actor, a Hero of the Socialist LabourHis son, Andrei Tolubeyev, also became an actor.- Filmography :* The Return of Maxim * Professor Mamlock * The Vyborg Side...
  
   - Loudmouthed Worker in Natasha's Office
• Aleksandr Bondi - Menshevik Troublemaker
• Mikhail Zharov
  Mikhail Zharov
  Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov was a Russian actor.He studied under the prominent director Theodore Komisarjevsky and debuted in Yakov Protazanov's Aelita...
  
   - Platon Vassilievich Dymba
• Nikolai Kryuchkov
  Nikolai Kryuchkov
  Nikolai Kryuchkov was a Soviet film actor. He appeared in 94 films between 1932 and 1993.-Selected filmography:* Okraina * By the Bluest of Seas * The Return of Maxim * The Vyborg Side * Salavat Yulayev...
  
  
• Vasili Merkuryev
  Vasili Merkuryev
  -Selected filmography:* The Return of Maxim * Professor Mamlock * The Vyborg Side * The Great Glinka * The Vow * The Battle of Stalingrad * True Friends * Twelfth Night...
  
  
• Mikheil Gelovani
  Mikheil Gelovani
  Mikheil Gelovani was a Georgian-Soviet actor, known for his many portrayals of Joseph Stalin in cinema.-Early life:Mikheil Gelovani was a descendant of the old Georgian princely house of Gelovani. He made his stage debut in a theater in Batumi during 1913. From 1919 to 1920, he attended the Drama...
  
  
• Stepan Kayukov
  Stepan Kayukov
  Stepan Yakovlevich Kayukov was a Soviet actor. He appeared in 30 films between 1935 and 1960.-Selected filmography:* Golden Mountains * The Youth of Maxim * Friends * The Return of Maxim...
  
  
• Leonid Lyubashevsky
• Maksim Shtraukh
• Mikhail Tarkhanov

External links

• http://books.google.com/books?id=Cuw1vHuxITYC&pg=PA427&dq=In+1910,+a+revolutionary+underground+group+spreads+leaflets+featuring+anti-tsarist+slogans.+Maksim,+a+young,+happy-go-lucky+worker+and+his+comrades+help+the+teacher+Natasha,+who+is+engaged+in+illegal+activities+in+the+factory,+hide+from+the+police.+Maksim'#v=onepage&q=&f=falseHistorical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema By Peter Rollberg]