The Deserter (1933 film)

Karl Renn, a Hamburg shipyard worker, is a member of the Communist Party of Germany and is commissioned by the Soviet Union to organize a general strike and exert pressure on employers. When the strike comes, several fights take place with the police. After a month of the strike, many workers are so exhausted that they become strikebreakers. TAn armed conflict breaks out, and even Karl's wife takes part in it; but he stays at home because of his cowardice. Nevertheless, as a delegate of the Party, he is sent together with four comrades to a meeting in the Soviet Union. He stays there, works in a blast furnace and is enthusiastic about the communist system. After a few weeks, he receives news that his Party Chief in Hamburg has been slain. He then travels back to Germany to continue the struggle of the workers.

• Boris Livanov – Karl Renn
• Vasily Kovrigin – Ludwig Zelle
• Aleksandr Chistyakov – Fritz Müller
• Tamara Makarova – Greta Zelle
• Semyon Svashenko – Bruno
• Dmitry Konsovsky – Strauss
• Yudif Glizer – Marcella Zelle
• Sergey Martinson – Passerby
• Maksim Shtraukh – First bonze
• Sergei Gerasimov – Second bonze
• Sergey Komarov – Worker
• Vladimir Uralsky – Cell secretary