Overview
Pyotr, backward lad 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). Deceitful industrialist's son involves naive young man in an attempt to murder Bolshevik leader.
Cast
- Boris Poslavsky as Pyotr, the country boy
- Ivan Shtraukh as Vasili, Bolshevik organizer
- Yuri Korvin-Krukovsky as Industrialist Krutilov
- Boris Feodosyev as Krutilov's son
- Boris Tenin as Windy
- Boris Chirkov as Worker
- Nikolai Michurin as Nikolay Ivanovich
- Konstantin Nazarenko as One-eyed
- Nikoloz Shengelaia as One from Baku
- Natalya Razumova as The Girl