Dress Rehearsal (1931)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

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

Director & Crew

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