Ataman Khmil'

(1924)

Genres: Romance

Year: 1924

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Владимир Гардин

Cast: Николай Салтыков, Николай Панов, Олег Фрелих, Zoya Barantsevich, Лиана Искрицкая-Гардина, Иона Таланов, Анна Аграмова, Александра Ребикова, Boris Chuevskiy, Ольга Быстрицкая

Plot

Revolutionary melodrama based on Lev Nikulin's story "Хміль". 1917. The main character of the film - a "bourgeois intellectual" - does not sympathize with any side and avoids revolutionary events. However, as a result of a series of adventurous adventures, love intrigues and communication with the people, he goes over to the side of the proletariat.