On one of the October nights at the ball, gymnasium pupils and officers scoff at the love of Kuzma Zakharkin, the “cook's son”, to Lena, the daughter of the manufacturer. Cannon volley interrupts the fun. In the city begins the Moscow armed uprising of workers.
At the center of the fate of two families is the capitalist Leontyev and the worker Zakharkin, whose sons became the organizers and participants of this uprising.
Иван Пельтцер
as Zakharkin, father
Mariya Yarotskaya
as Zakharkina, mother
Николай Дорохин
as Pyotr Zakharkin
Алексей Консовский
as Kuzma Zakharkin
Владимир Попов
as Ilya Zakharkin
Татьяна Окуневская
as Lena Leontyeva
Леонид Князев
as Shura Leontyev
Sergei Vecheslov
as Aleksei Leontyev
Владимир Васильевич Грибко́в
as Mikhailov, chairman of the Revkom
Ivan Arkadin
as Semikhatov, salesman
Mikhail Kholodov
as Soskin, officer
Осип Абдулов
as colonel
