The Youth of Maxim

The Youth of Maxim

90 mins | Drama, War, History | Dec. 9, 1934

A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it... "an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism and revolutionary boiling in the days of 1907. Picture is one of the Soviet prize winners and has particular merits in realistic performance, photography and movement, plus some musical touches in way of folk songs." Written by Les Adams

The Youth of Maxim

90 mins | Drama, War, History | Dec. 9, 1934

The Youth of Maxim
A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it... "an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism and revolutionary boiling in the days of 1907. Picture is one of the Soviet prize winners and has particular merits in realistic performance, photography and movement, plus some musical touches in way of folk songs." Written by Les Adams
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Gosudarstvennoe Upravlenie Kinematografii i fotografii (GUKF)
Original title Юность Максима
Directors Leonid Trauberg, Grigori Kozintsev
Writers Leonid Trauberg

Cast

Boris Chirkov

as Maksim

Valentina Kibardina

as Natasha

Mikhail Tarkhanov

as Polivanov, socialist party elder

Stepan Kayukov

as Dmitri "Dyema" Savchenko

Aleksandr Kulakov

as Andrei