
The film covers the events of 1896-1905 - from the first revolutionary gatherings to the armed Moscow uprising of workers at Krasnaya Presnya, later called Bloody Sunday. St. Petersburg students Alexander Mikhailov and Yevgeny Svetlov and a peasant girl Varvara Postnikova arrive in Moscow and follow the complicated path of underground revolutionaries.

as Yevgeni Svetlov

as Aleksandr Mikhajlov (as B. Shchukhin)

as Varvara Postnikova

as Professor

as Stepan Klimov

as Niko Gotserkinsky

as Gendarme general

as Akim Ivanovich, city patrolman

as Roza Stein

as Widow