Arriving in St. Petersburg in search of work, a peasant unwittingly aids in the arrest of an old friend who is now a labour leader. The unemployed man is arrested and sent to fight in the Great War. After three years, he returns to rebel.
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Director
Aleksandr Chistyakov
Worker
Vera Baranovskaya
Worker's wife
Ivan Chuvelyov
The Village Lad
Vladimir Obolenskiy
Lebedev, the manufacturer
Alexandr Gromov
The Bald Revolutionary
Sergei Komarov
District Police Chief
Maks Tereshkovich
Reporter
V. Chuvelyov
Village Lad's Friend among New Workers
Vladimir Tsoppi
Anti-German Patriot with Top Hat
Nikolai Khmelyov
Stock Broker
Mark Tsibulsky
Stock Broker
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