Overview
A Jewish tannery worker, Nahum Beychik, invents a machine that makes hard work easier in leather tanning. A private entrepreneur, former kulak Lopatin, tries to buy the invention and use it for his own selfish interests. Having met with a decisive refusal from Nahum Beychik, the kulak exploits the anti-Semitic sentiments of the backward part of the workers and, with the help of his accomplices, hooligans and truants, tries to kill the inventor.
Cast
- A. Genin as Nahum Beychik, inventor
- Vasili Bokarev as Surkov, master
- Kuzma Yastrebetsky as Lopatin
- Aleksandr Duletov as Kuzma, Surkov's son
- Nikolai Akimov as Factory secretary
- Ye. Bondina as Lopatina
- T. Sokolovskaya as Nadya
- F. Tarasov as Worker
- S. Stepanov as Worker
- V. Snezhinskaya as (uncredited)