Soviet "proletarian" film about anti-war strike at St Petersburg factory, 1914. Resembles Pudovkin's classic "End of St. Petersburg," made 4 years earlier: backward lad (Poslavsky) 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). The Bolshevik strikers are led by Ivan Shtraukh (brother of the more famous Russian actor Maxim Shtraukh). At first, the deceitful industrialist's son (Fedosev) involves the naive Poslavsky in an attempt to murder Shtraukh, but the attempt only wounds the heroic organizer. Will Poslavsky follow through with the planned killing, or will he redeem himself by going over to the side of the strikers?
Борис Пославский
as Pyotr, the country boy
Ivan Shtraukh
as Vasili, Bolshevik organizer
Yuri Korvin-Krukovsky
as Industrialist Krutilov
Борис Феодосьев
as Krutilov's son
Борис Тенин
as Windy
Борис Чирков
as Worker
Николай Мичурин
as Nikolay Ivanovich
Константин Назаренко
as One-eyed
ნიკოლოზ შენგელაია
as One from Baku
Наталья Разумова
as The Girl
Фёдор Славский
as Worker
N. Sholkovskiy
as Local police
