Dress Rehearsal

Dress Rehearsal

1931 · Drama

The film recreates the events of 1905. In the center of the picture is the struggle of the proletariat, led by the Bolshevik party, against tsarism. The demonstration of labor unrest is replaced by episodes of the Russo-Japanese war, Black-Hundred demonstrations, accompanied by a pogrom of Jews, and beating of the intelligentsia. The film paints the attitude of the Mensheviks towards armed insurrection, reproduces the picture of barricade battles, the arrest of the Council of Workers' Deputies and the brutal reprisals of the tsarist autocracy with revolutionaries.

Directed by Pavel Kolomoytsev · Written by M. Oleynichenko

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Vladimir Voyshvillo Bolshevik worker
Ivan Franko Old soldier
Mikhail Gayvoronsky Navy sailor
Arseni Kuts Tsar Nikolay II
Ivan Malikov-Elvorti Provocateur
Mykola Nademskyi Menshevik
Antonin Pankryshev Captain
Pavlo Petryk Student
Vyacheslav Gomolyaka Factory worker
Sofiia Smyrnova Girl

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