The Vyborg Side
About The Vyborg Side
Maksim leads Red Guards into the Winter Palace, then is made commissar of the state bank, where clerks hide and destroy papers. With a small group he puts the books in order and signs the first Soviet budget. The Socialist Revolutionary Ropshin and the anarchist Dymba start a raid on the wine stores and pull in the soldier's widow Yevdokia. Maksim stops the raid and has Dymba arrested. With her help he finds tsarist officers planning to kill Lenin on the day the Constituent Assembly opens, and he breaks that plot. He then joins the Red Army against the German occupation.
Cast & crew
More about The Vyborg Side
Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg directed and, with Lev Slavin, wrote the last film of the Maxim trilogy, after The Youth of Maxim (1935) and The Return of Maxim (1937). Lenfilm. It premiered on 2 February 1939. Another listed date is 11 May 1939. In the United States it was released as New Horizons.
Themes
Background
The story uses the storming of the Winter Palace, the first Soviet budget, the raid on the wine stores, the opening of the Constituent Assembly, and the German advance.
Making
The third Maxim film takes him out of the factory, into the bank, and then into the army.
Look
Andrei Moskvin and Georgi Filatov photographed it.
Music
Dmitri Shostakovich wrote the score.
Notes
- Boris Chirkov plays Maksim. Valentina Kibardina plays Natasha. Mikhail Zharov plays Platon Dymba. Natalya Uzhviy plays Yevdokia Kozlova.
- Maksim Shtraukh plays Lenin. Mikheil Gelovani plays Stalin. Leonid Lyubashevsky plays Sverdlov.
- Nikolai Kryuchkov plays a soldier. Yuri Tolubeyev plays Yegor Bugai. Dmitri Dudnikov plays Ropshin.
Scenes
- Maksim and a handful of helpers reconstruct the bank's books.
- He stops Dymba's raid on the wine stores and then breaks the plan to kill Lenin.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1938. Выборгская сторона.webm)
