Summary Jimmy Higgings is an worker at a plant making weapons for Tsarist Russia and the German Empire. During World War I, Jimmy speaks at a spontaneous rally against the war. He is arrested. When released, he becomes unemployed. He is happy to hear the news about the revolution; he volunteers into the American expeditionary force thinking that having the weapons he can fight against Germans - the enemies of the Russian revolution. However, finding himself in Russia, Jimmy soon realise that the expeditionary force of American volunteers fights not against the Germans, but against the young Socialist Russia. Without any hesitation, he takes the path of revolutionary struggle, he spreads propaganda among the American soldiers and distributes Bolshevik leaflets. Captured by the American military police, Jimmy Higgings does not betray his friends. He is sentenced to twenty years in a military prison. Jimmy cannot stand it and loses his mind. View more details
Directed : Georgi Tasin
Written : Georgi Tasin Upton Sinclair Isaak Babel
Stars : Amvrosi Buchma Boris Shlikhting V. Kolpashnikov Elena Adamaytis-Astangova
Genres : Drama
Release date : Jan 14, 1929
Countries of origin : Soviet Union
Official sites : VUFKU VUFKU
Language : Russian None
Production companies : Odeska Kinofabryka Vseukrainske Foto Kino Upravlinnia (VUFKU)
Summary Jimmy Higgings is an worker at a plant making weapons for Tsarist Russia and the German Empire. During World War I, Jimmy speaks at a spontaneous rally against the war. He is arrested. When released, he becomes unemployed. He is happy to hear the news about the revolution; he volunteers into the American expeditionary force thinking that having the weapons he can fight against Germans - the enemies of the Russian revolution. However, finding himself in Russia, Jimmy soon realise that the expeditionary force of American volunteers fights not against the Germans, but against the young Socialist Russia. Without any hesitation, he takes the path of revolutionary struggle, he spreads propaganda among the American soldiers and distributes Bolshevik leaflets. Captured by the American military police, Jimmy Higgings does not betray his friends. He is sentenced to twenty years in a military prison. Jimmy cannot stand it and loses his mind. View more details
Genres : Drama
Release date : Jan 14, 1929
Countries of origin : Soviet Union
Official sites : VUFKU VUFKU
Language : Russian None
Production companies : Odeska Kinofabryka Vseukrainske Foto Kino Upravlinnia (VUFKU)
