His Call (1925)

10.0/10 62 min Drama

Overview

The main protagonists of the film are Katya (Varvara Popova), the daughter of a factory worker and Andrey (Ivan Koval-Samborsky), the son of the former owner of the factory who illegally returns to the USSR to find treasures hidden by his father. The film title refers to the Communist party's appeal, after Lenin's death, to enlarge its membership.

Cast

Varvara Popova

Katya Sushkova

Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina

Katya's grandmother

Ivan Koval-Samborskiy

Andrey, factory worker

Olga Zhizneva

Lulu

Anatoli Ktorov

Vladimir Zaglobin, cynical emigrant

Vera Maretskaya

Varya

Alexander Geirot

Candidate for the throne

Mikhail Zharov

Factory worker

Tatyana Mukhina

Little girl

Nikolai Prozorovsky

Factory worker

Yakov Rykov

Yevstigneich, kulak

Naum Rogozhin

Emigrant (uncredited)

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