
The Youth of Maxim
War · Drama · History
Overview
A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it... "an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism and revolutionary boiling in the days of 1907. Picture is one of the Soviet prize winners and has particular merits in realistic performance, photography and movement, plus some musical touches in way of folk songs."
Top Cast


Boris Chirkov
Boris Chirkov
Maksim
Boris Chirkov
Maksim


Valentina Kibardina
Valentina Kibardina
Natasha
Valentina Kibardina
Natasha


Mikhail Tarkhanov
Mikhail Tarkhanov
Polivanov, socialist party elder
Mikhail Tarkhanov
Polivanov, socialist party elder


Stepan Kayukov
Stepan Kayukov
Dmitri "Dyema" Savchenko
Stepan Kayukov
Dmitri "Dyema" Savchenko


Boris Blinov
Boris Blinov
political prisoner
Boris Blinov
political prisoner


Aleksandr Kulakov
Aleksandr Kulakov
Andrei
Aleksandr Kulakov
Andrei


Vladimir Sladkopevtsev
Vladimir Sladkopevtsev
head of the prison
Vladimir Sladkopevtsev
head of the prison


Pavel Volkov
Pavel Volkov
workman with the accordion
Pavel Volkov
workman with the accordion


Irina Gosheva
Irina Gosheva
Prisoner
Irina Gosheva
Prisoner


Leonid Lyubashevsky
Leonid Lyubashevsky
Leonid Lyubashevsky
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