The main protagonists of the film are Katya (Varvara Popova), the daughter of a factory worker and Andrey (Ivan Koval-Samborsky), the son of the former owner of the factory who illegally returns to the USSR to find treasures hidden by his father. The film title refers to the Communist party's appeal, after Lenin's death, to enlarge its membership.
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Varvara Popova as Katya Sushkova
Natasha Konyus as Katya in the childhood
Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina as Katya's grandmother
Ivan Koval-Samborskyi as Andrey, factory worker
Olga Zhiznyeva as Lulu
Anatoli Ktorov as Vladimir Zaglobin, cynical emigrant
Vera Maretskaya as Varya
Alexander Geirot as Candidate for the throne
Mikhail Zharov as Factory worker
Nikolai Prozorovsky as Factory worker
V. Yermolov-Borozdin as Pyotr Zaglobin, former manufacturer
Yakov Rykov as Yevstigneich, kulak
Nikolai Gladkov as (uncredited)
Naum Rogozhin as Emigrant (uncredited)
Yakov Protazanov Director
Vera Eri Writer
Louis Forestier Director of Photography
Vladimir Egorov Production Design
Yego prizyv Trailer
Broken Chains Trailer
Russia 02 January 1925
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Его призыв (фрагмент) / His Call (Broken Chains) (fragment) Режиссер - Яков Протазанов Премьера - 17 февраля 1925 Жанр - Драма...
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1925:
26 April 1925
David Sheldon owns a plantation in the Solomon Islands. Many of his field hands die of blackwater fever, and then he becomes sick himself.
13 October 1925
When drunken Canadian trapper Raoul La Fane attacks his young wife Marie, she takes a shot at him. La Fane falls, and Marie, thinking she killed him, flees into the white wilderness.
13 April 1925
When Silent Sanderson's brother kills himself over the rejection of a woman, Silent blames Judith Benson and leaves the family homestead to begin a new life in Alaska.
27 September 1925
American sculptress Adele La Rue, working in Paris, lacks the inspiration to create a masterpiece, until Jean Ballard, a wild apache leader, takes refuge from the police in her apartment.
12 July 1925
A famous international actress wants to marry the love of her life, a millionaire but is blocked by a renowned woman-hater who actually ants her for himself.
13 December 1925
Based on a novel by William J. Locke, Stella Maris is a remake of the 1918 Mary Pickford vehicle of the same name.
01 November 1925
Jane Brower wants nothing more than to leave behind her ranch life in the West and go East. When she happens upon a party in the private railroad car of wealthy August Van Dorn, Jane gets the idea to finance her trip by kidnapping his son, Donald, for ransom.
12 January 1925
After being educated in England, Daisy Forbes returns to China, the country of her birth, and discovers that her father has recently died and that she has become a social outcast, owing to the public revelation that the oriental nurse who raised her was actually her mother.
06 August 1925
Gordon Palmer is a lazy and cowardly rich man's son. When he and his fiancée, Aileen Merton, are held up by two crooks, Slug Williams and Beef O'Connell, he passively allows them to take whatever they want.
18 October 1925
Jerry Chandler falls for the lovely Mimi Le Brun and she with him. He proposes marriage but Mimi wants money and security which he cannot provide so she becomes engaged to a wealthy man whom she does not love.
13 December 1925
Billy inherits a major department store, but has to pretend not to be married in order to claim it - which doesn't sit too well with his wife.
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