Release, runtime and language

1919 · 20 mins

Directed by

Aleksandr Razumnyj

Starring

Dimitri Buchowetzki, Polikarp Pavlov, Vera Orlova, Pyotr Baksheyev

Produced as part of a series of revolutionary short Bolshevik films, it follows Abram Hersh, a young Jewish survivor of a pogrom who becomes a factory worker and organizer in Moscow, later rising to a leadership position in the Red Army. The narrative stresses his suffering and heroism as both worker and Jew, calling for solidarity and denouncing antisemitism.