His Call is a 1925 Soviet

Cinema of the Soviet Union

The cinema of the Soviet Union, not to be confused with "Cinema of Russia" despite Russian language films being predominant in both genres, includes several film contributions of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union reflecting elements of their pre-Soviet culture, language and history,...

 film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 directed by Yakov Protazanov

Yakov Protazanov

Yakov Alexandrovich Protazanov was Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter, and one of the founding fathers of cinema of Russia....

. It was also released as 23 January in the Soviet Union and as Broken Chains in the United States.

Plot

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.

Cast

• Varvara Popova - Katya Sushkova
• Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina - Katya's grandmother
• Ivan Koval-Samborsky - Andrey
• Olga Zhiznyeva
  Olga Zhiznyeva
  Olga Andryevna Zhiznyeva was a famous Russian actress.-Filmography:*Dostoyanie respubliki *Kremlyovskie kuranty *Tsvety zapozdalye as Knyaginya...
  
   - Lulu
• Anatoli Ktorov
  Anatoli Ktorov
  Anatoli Petrovich Ktorov was a famous Russian film and stage actor.-Early years:...
  
   - Vladimir Zaglobin
• Vera Maretskaya
  Vera Maretskaya
  Vera Petrovna Maretskaya was a Russian actress.-Early years:Vera Petrovna Maretskaya was born on July 31, 1906, in Barvikha, a suburb of Moscow. Young Maretskaya helped her father, named Petr Maretsky, who was a candy bar vendor at Moscow Circus...
  
   - Varya
• Aleksandr Geirot
• V. Yermolov-Borozdin
• Mikhail Zharov
  Mikhail Zharov
  Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov was a Russian actor.He studied under the prominent director Theodore Komisarjevsky and debuted in Yakov Protazanov's Aelita...
  
   - Worker
• Tatyana Mukhina - Girl
• Natasha Konyus
• Y. Rykov
• Nikolai Prozorovsky