The Defense of Volotchayevsk (Russian: Волочаевские дни) is a 1937 Soviet history war film directed and written by the Vasilyev brothers.
The Japanese squadron arrives at the raid of Vladivostok. The Japanese command landed troops in the Far East to allegedly protect their citizens.
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Plot
In 1918, a Imperial Japanese Navy squadron appears off the coast of Vladivostok. On the flagship, Colonel Ushijima (played by Lev Sverdlin), the leader of the Japanese expeditionary corps, converses with an American journalist. The colonel claims his hobby is botany and that he has come to Siberia to collect forget-me-nots found only in the Suchan District (now Partizansky District, Primorsky Krai). In reality, the Japanese seek an excuse for intervention.
The task of orchestrating a provocation is assigned to White Army lieutenant Grishin, who murders a Japanese watchmaker. This act serves as a pretext for the Japanese to land troops in Vladivostok, eventually moving toward the region of Volochaevka near Khabarovsk.
Cast
Varvara Myasnikova as Masha
Nikolai Dorokhin as Andrei
Lev Sverdlin as Col. Ushujima
Yuri Lavrov as White Guard Officer
Boris Chirkov as Old Man
Boris Blinov as Bublik
Vladimir Lukin as Egor
Andrei Apsolon
Pavel Volkov
Valeri Solovtsov
Sergey Filippov