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...help Councilmen make up their minds, Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, roly-poly Soviet Foreign Minister, made the speech he would have made at Stresa had Russia been invited to that Conference (TIME, April...
...Youth of Maxim (Lenfilm) relates the adventures which transform a jolly young factory worker into a hard-working member of the party which preserved the spark of the Russian Revolution after the unsuccessful revolt of 1905. When first seen, Maxim (Boris Chirkov) is stumping off to work cheerfully enough with his two companions, Andrei and Dyoma. Andrei is killed in a factory accident caused by an overseer's neglect. In the riots that follow, Dyoma kills a policeman. He and Maxim are carted off to jail where Dyoma is shot. By the time Maxim is freed, he is ready...
...Moscow's Cinema Festival held last month to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Soviet cinema, The Youth of Maxim shared first prize with Chapayev (TIME, Jan. 28) and Peasants, to be released in the U. S. next month. Like Chapayev, this attentive and historically intriguing study of the Revolution in its infancy is infused with qualities which U. S. cine-maddicts may find new in Russian cinema: an ability to take its message for granted, to establish a sensible relation between the political preoccupations and the other concerns of its characters, to laugh at itself. Technically as adept...
Interpreter was a Polish Jew who once worked in England as a traveling salesman, today His Excellency Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, roly-poly Foreign Minister of Soviet Russia. Smarter than "Maxie" they do not come. Knowing perfectly well that every member of the British ruling classes hates him and Stalin, Comrade Litvinoff stage-managed Captain Eden's visit in a way to win reluctant sympathy for Bolshevikland and turn the tables against Nazidom...
...Poland, the lean, sponging Rabbi-brother of Russia's roly-poly Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff makes a fairly good thing out of going down to the Bialystok station when "Maxie's" special train is going through to Warsaw, sometimes gets enough money to pay a month's rent, sometimes only one of Maxie's cigars, sometimes a cuffing from Maxie's Red Guards. Last week in Lodz the potent Bolshevik's indigent old sister Ester was shoved into the street by an irate landlord who dumped her furniture on the pavement...