The read
It runs a compact 1h 28m.
Synopsis
Pyotr, backward lad from poor village, comes to town desperate for work. He's hired as replacement ("scab") worker at big metallurgical factory, which is in the throes of a strike organized by the Bolsheviks (communists). Deceitful industrialist's son involves naive young man in an attempt to murder Bolshevik leader.
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
3 audience votes
Key crew
- Lev ArnshtamWriter
- Sergei YutkevichDirector
- Andrey MikhaylovskiyWriter
- Vladimir NedobrovoWriter
- Sergei YutkevichWriter
- Dmitri ShostakovichOriginal Music Composer
- Aleksei ChapyginWriter
Cast
- Boris PoslavskyPyotr, the country boy
- Ivan ShtraukhVasili, Bolshevik organizer
- Yuri Korvin-KrukovskyIndustrialist Krutilov
- Boris FeodosyevKrutilov's son
- Boris TeninWindy
- Boris ChirkovWorker
- Nikolai MichurinNikolay Ivanovich
- Konstantin NazarenkoOne-eyed
- Nikoloz ShengelaiaOne from Baku
- Natalya RazumovaThe Girl
- Fedor SlavskiWorker
- N. SholkovskiyLocal police
Stills
Themes
soviet unionproletarian