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.
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Cast
A. Genin
Nahum Beychik, inventor
Vasili Bokarev
Surkov, master
Kuzma Yastrebetsky
Lopatin
Aleksandr Duletov
Kuzma, Surkov's son
Nikolai Akimov
Factory secretary
Ye. Bondina
Lopatina
T. Sokolovskaya
Nadya
F. Tarasov
Worker
S. Stepanov
Worker
V. Snezhinskaya
(uncredited)
Viktor Arkasov
Worker (uncredited)
Ivan Mutanov
Worker (uncredited)
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