On one of the October nights at the ball, gymnasium pupils and officers scoff at the love of Kuzma Zakharkin, the “cook's son”, to Lena, the daughter of the manufacturer. Cannon volley interrupts the fun. In the city begins the Moscow armed uprising of workers. At the center of the fate of two families is the capitalist Leontyev and the worker Zakharkin, whose sons became the organizers and participants of this uprising.
as Zakharkin, father
as Zakharkina, mother
as Pyotr Zakharkin
as Kuzma Zakharkin
as Ilya Zakharkin
as Lena Leontyeva
as Shura Leontyev
as Aleksei Leontyev
as Mikhailov, chairman of the Revkom
as Amos Semikhatov, salesman
as Soskin, officer
as colonel
as Otets Leontyeva
as Officer at the phone (uncredited)
