The_Youth_of_Maxim

<i>The Youth of Maxim</i>

The Youth of Maxim

1935 film by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg

The Youth of Maxim (Russian: Юность Максима) is a 1935 Soviet historical drama film directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, the first part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker named Maxim.[1][2]

Quick Facts The Youth of Maxim, Directed by ...
The Youth of Maxim

Plot

In 1910, a revolutionary underground group spreads leaflets featuring anti-tsarist slogans. Maksim, a young, happy-go-lucky worker and his comrades help the teacher Natasha, who is engaged in illegal activities in the factory, hide from the police.

Maksim's friend Andrei and another worker lose their lives. Their funeral turns into a huge demonstration which is suppressed by the police. Numerous people are arrested, among them Maksim, who subsequently becomes a Social Democratic activist.

Cast

  • Boris Chirkov - Maksim
  • Valentina Kibardina - Natasha
  • Mikhail Tarkhanov - Polivanov
  • Stepan Kayukov - Dmitri "Dyema" Savchenko
  • Aleksandr Kulakov - Andrei
  • Boris Blinov
  • S. Leontyev
  • M. Shelkovsky
  • Vladimir Sladkopevtsev
  • Leonid Lyubashevky
  • Pavel Volkov - The workman with the accordion (uncredited)

References

  1. [1]
    Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 427–428. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
  2. [2]
    Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 320.
Stub icon

This article related to a Soviet film of the 1930s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article The_Youth_of_Maxim, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.