His Call
The main protagonists of the film are Katya (Varvara Popova), the daughter of a factory worker and Andrey (Ivan Koval-Samborsky), the son of the former owner of the factory who illegally returns to the USSR to find treasures hidden by his father. The film title refers to the Communist party's appeal, after Lenin's death, to enlarge its membership.
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Top Cast
Varvara Popova
Katya Sushkova
Natasha Konyus
Katya in the childhood
Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina
Katya's grandmother
Ivan Koval-Samborskiy
Andrey, factory worker
Olga Zhizneva
Lulu
Anatoli Ktorov
Vladimir Zaglobin, cynical emigrant
Vera Maretskaya
Varya
Alexander Geirot
Candidate for the throne
Mikhail Zharov
Factory worker
Tatyana Mukhina
Little girl
Nikolai Prozorovsky
Factory worker
Vladimir Yermolov-Borozdin
Pyotr Zaglobin, former manufacturer
Yakov Rykov
Yevstigneich, kulak
Nikolai Gladkov
(uncredited)
Naum Rogozhin
Emigrant (uncredited)
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