The Return of Maxim

Maxim is a young factory worker. This second part of a trilogy carries his story on. The year is 1914 and the month is July. Who will represent the workers in the Duma is being fought over. Bolsheviks and Mensheviks are on opposite sides. Maxim has just come back from exile. Six men have been dismissed at the factory. He calls the workers out on strike over it. A man named Platon Dymba attacks him. Maxim is badly wounded. That man is drawn as a traitor. The strike grows and thousands come out into the streets. Just then the news arrives. The First World War has begun. Maxim is called up. Boris Chirkov and Valentina Kibardina appear in the hundred and five minute film, a Soviet production Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg finished in 1937.