The read
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists. The story of the suppression of the Bolshevik uprising at the Arsenal factory in Kyiv by the Central Council troops.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes83%
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do.
61 audience votes
Key crew
- Alexander DovzhenkoWriter
- Alexander DovzhenkoDirector
Cast
- Semyon SvashenkoTymish
- Amvrosii Buchmaa German soldier
- Dmytro Erdmana German officer
- Sergey Petrova German officer
- Mykola KuchynskyiPetliura
- Mykola Nademskyia nationalist with a lamp
- Borys Zahorskyidead German soldier
- Osyp MerlattiMykhailo Sadovskyi
- Heorhii Khorkova Red Army soldier
- Andrii Mykhailovskyinationalist
- Oleksandr YevdakovNicholas II
- Petro Masokhaworkman
Stills
Themes
uniformworld war ilaughing gasrussian soldierpost world war isoldierhomecomingrussian revolution (1917)russian armybolsheviktrain wreck