
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)