
Ataman Khmil' 1924
Overview
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.
Director: Vladimir Gardin
Cast

Nikolai Saltykov
Ataman Khmil'

Nikolai Panov
Zagarin, landowner

Oleg Frelikh
Georgiy Zagarin, emigrant son

Zoya Barantsevich
Anna Zagarina, Georgiy's wife

Liana Iskritskaya-Gardina
Peasant girl

Iona Talanov
Vronskiy, estate manager
Anna Agramova
Chernenko, widow

Aleksandra Rebikova
Tanya
Boris Chuevskiy
Van-Gogen, banker

Olga Bystritskaya
Ryta Berg, former dancer