Dress Rehearsal

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.

Cast

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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