Ataman Khmil'

Revolutionary melodrama based on Lev Nikulin's story "Хміль". 1917. The main character of the film - a "bourgeois intellectual" - does not sympathize with any side and avoids revolutionary events. However, as a result of a series of adventurous adventures, love intrigues and communication with the people, he goes over to the side of the proletariat.

• Vladimir GardinDirector
• Lev NikulinWriter

• Nikolai SaltykovAtaman Khmil'
• Nikolai PanovZagarin, landowner
• Oleg FrelikhGeorgiy Zagarin, emigrant son
• Zoya BarantsevichAnna Zagarina, Georgiy's wife
• Liana Iskritskaya-GardinaPeasant girl
• Iona TalanovVronskiy, estate manager
• Anna AgramovaChernenko, widow
• Aleksandra RebikovaTanya
• Boris ChuevskiyVan-Gogen, banker
• Olga BystritskayaRyta Berg, former dancer
• Mikhail StalskiCaptain Golde
• Alexandr GromovWorker