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A Jewish tannery worker, Nahum Beychik, invents a machine that makes hard work easier in leather tanning. A private entrepreneur, former kulak Lopatin, tries to buy the invention and use it for his own selfish interests. Having met with a decisive refusal from Nahum Beychik, the kulak exploits the anti-Semitic sentiments of the backward part of the workers and, with the help of his accomplices, hooligans and truants, tries to kill the inventor.Read moreLess
A Jewish tannery worker, Nahum Beychik, invents a machine that makes hard work easier in leather tanning. A private entrepreneur, former kulak Lopatin, tries to buy the invention and use it for his own selfish interests. Having met with a decisive refusal from Nahum Beychik, the kulak exploits the anti-Semitic sentiments of the backward part of the workers and, with the help of his accomplices, hooligans and truants, tries to kill the inventor.
The story
A Jewish tannery worker, Nahum Beychik, invents a machine that makes hard work easier in leather tanning. A private entrepreneur, former kulak Lopatin, tries to buy the invention and use it for his own selfish interests. Having met with a decisive refusal from Nahum Beychik, the kulak exploits the anti-Semitic sentiments of the backward part of the workers and, with the help of his accomplices, hooligans and truants, tries to kill the inventor.
Cast & crew
Kuzma YastrebetskyLopatin
Aleksandr DuletovKuzma, Surkov's son
Nikolai AkimovFactory secretary
Viktor ArkasovWorker (uncredited)
Ivan MutanovWorker (uncredited)Explore the crew
- Writer
- Ivan Mutanov
- Writer
- Naum Loyter
- Writer
- Aleksandr Kron
- Director
- Ivan Mutanov
- Director of Photography
- Boris Monastyrsky
- Writer
- L. Zadvorochnov
- Writer
- Leonid Varlamov