
Dress Rehearsal
Drama
Overview
The film recreates the events of 1905. In the center of the picture is the struggle of the proletariat, led by the Bolshevik party, against tsarism. The demonstration of labor unrest is replaced by episodes of the Russo-Japanese war, Black-Hundred demonstrations, accompanied by a pogrom of Jews, and beating of the intelligentsia. The film paints the attitude of the Mensheviks towards armed insurrection, reproduces the picture of barricade battles, the arrest of the Council of Workers' Deputies and the brutal reprisals of the tsarist autocracy with revolutionaries.
Top Cast


Vladimir Voyshvillo
Vladimir Voyshvillo
Bolshevik worker
Vladimir Voyshvillo
Bolshevik worker


Ivan Franko
Ivan Franko
Old soldier
Ivan Franko
Old soldier
Mikhail Gayvoronsky
Mikhail Gayvoronsky
Navy sailor
Mikhail Gayvoronsky
Navy sailor
Arseni Kuts
Arseni Kuts
Tsar Nikolay II
Arseni Kuts
Tsar Nikolay II


Ivan Malikov-Elvorti
Ivan Malikov-Elvorti
Provocateur
Ivan Malikov-Elvorti
Provocateur


Mykola Nademskyi
Mykola Nademskyi
Menshevik
Mykola Nademskyi
Menshevik


Antonin Pankryshev
Antonin Pankryshev
Captain
Antonin Pankryshev
Captain
Pavlo Petryk
Pavlo Petryk
Student
Pavlo Petryk
Student
Vyacheslav Gomolyaka
Vyacheslav Gomolyaka
Factory worker
Vyacheslav Gomolyaka
Factory worker


Sofiia Smyrnova
Sofiia Smyrnova
Girl
Sofiia Smyrnova
Girl
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