Revolutionary melodrama based on Lev Nikulin's story "Хміль". 1917. The main character of the film - a "bourgeois intellectual" - does not sympathize with any side and avoids revolutionary events. However, as a result of a series of adventurous adventures, love intrigues and communication with the people, he goes over to the side of the proletariat.

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Cast

Nikolai Saltykov

Ataman Khmil'

Nikolai Panov

Zagarin, landowner

Oleg Frelikh

Georgiy Zagarin, emigrant son

Zoya Barantsevich

Anna Zagarina, Georgiy's wife

Liana Iskritskaya-Gardina

Peasant girl

Iona Talanov

Vronskiy, estate manager

Aleksandra Rebikova

Tanya

Olga Bystritskaya

Ryta Berg, former dancer

Alexandr Gromov

Worker

Leo Negri

Count Svider Makhnitskiy