The film is based on The Governor, a play by Leonid Andreyev. V.I. Kachalov plays the governor of a small Russian province who tries to treat the people under his authority with kindness and equanimity. But when a local factory goes on strike, the governor buckles under to pressure from the Tzar and orders the wholesale slaughter of the strikers. He pays for this betrayal of his trust with his life -- at the hands of a courageous Bolshevik spy.

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Cast

Vasiliy Kachalov

Governor

Anna Sten

Governess

Vsevolod Meyerhold

State official

Ivan Chuvelyov

Provocator

Andrey Petrovsky

Police general

Pyotr Repnin

Archbishop

Yury Vasilchikov

Official

Mikhail Zharov

Official

Alexandr Gromov

Revolutionary

Aleksandr Chistyakov

State prisoner