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.
Nikolai SaltykovAtaman Khmil'
Nikolai PanovZagarin, landowner
Oleg FrelikhGeorgiy Zagarin, emigrant son
Zoya BarantsevichAnna Zagarina, Georgiy's wife
Liana Iskritskaya-GardinaPeasant girl
Iona TalanovVronskiy, estate managerAnna AgramovaChernenko, widow
Aleksandra RebikovaTanyaBoris ChuevskiyVan-Gogen, banker
Olga BystritskayaRyta Berg, former dancerMikhail StalskiCaptain Golde
Alexandr GromovWorker
Leo NegriCount Svider MakhnitskiyFokhtLyuba Zakharova