The read
It runs a compact 1h 8m.
Synopsis
A Jewish tannery worker, Nahum Beychik, invents a machine that makes hard work easier in leather tanning. A private entrepreneur, former kulak Lopatin, tries to buy the invention and use it for his own selfish interests. Having met with a decisive refusal from Nahum Beychik, the kulak exploits the anti-Semitic sentiments of the backward part of the workers and, with the help of his accomplices, hooligans and truants, tries to kill the inventor.
Ratings
IMDb6/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Aleksandr KronWriter
- Naum LoyterWriter
- Ivan MutanovDirector
- Ivan MutanovWriter
- L. ZadvorochnovWriter
- Leonid VarlamovWriter
Cast
- A. GeninNahum Beychik, inventor
- Vasili BokarevSurkov, master
- Kuzma YastrebetskyLopatin
- Aleksandr DuletovKuzma, Surkov's son
- Nikolai AkimovFactory secretary
- Ye. BondinaLopatina
- T. SokolovskayaNadya
- F. TarasovWorker
- S. StepanovWorker
- V. Snezhinskaya(uncredited)
- Viktor ArkasovWorker (uncredited)
- Ivan MutanovWorker (uncredited)
Themes
silent film