Stand! (2019) Online
1919. Winnipeg - the "Chicago of the North" - is crippled by a six-week general strike, and becomes the continent's battleground for the democratic dream. Mike Sokolowski and his godson Stefan have escaped Europe only to become "enemy aliens" in Canada. But where Stefan finds social justice in the strike, Mike sees a threat to his slave-wage job - his only hope of saving his family from revolution in Ukraine. When Stefan falls in love with Rebecca, the pro-strike Jewish suffragette (making a deportation target of them all), Mike turns against the strikers and their growing hope of changing the world. Old world hatreds and New World ambitions collide in an epic story of courage, passion and hope on a collision course with power.
| Credited cast, sorted by IMDb STARmeter: | |||
 | Laura Wiggins | - | Rebecca Almazoff |
 | Gregg Henry | - | Mike Sokolowski |
 | Hayley Sales | - | Helen Armstrong |
 | Marshall Williams | - | Stefan Sokolowski |
 | Chelsey Mark | - | Prisoner |
 | Ari Hansen | - | Ten Year Old Boy |
 | Aidan Moreno | - | Ticket Agent |
 | Paul Andrich | - | Policeman 1 |
 | Boris Gulyarin | - | Aleksey Vasiliev |
 | Bradley Sawatzky | - | Beat Cop |
 | Angela Narth | - | Terrified Woman |
 | Erik Athavale | - | Pumphouse Worker |
 | Robin Ruel | - | Susan Anderson |
 | Bj Verot | - | Striker #1 |
 | Pilar Floyd | - | Cook |
When the stage musical on which the movie is based premiered in 2005, it starred Jay Brazeau in the role of Mike Sokolowski.
Jeff Goldblum attended the premiere run of the stage production in 2005 in support of his fiancé Catherine Wreford - who originated the role of Rebecca Almazoff.
Although the 1919 story on which the musical is based was seen as shameful to many Winnipeggers, it is now acknowledged as one of the era's significant human rights stories and will be featured in the Canadian Museum of Human Rights.
The story is based in part on composer Danny Schur 's family history of an interfaith marriage between a Catholic and a Jew.
The characters Mike Sokolowski and Moishe Almazoff are based on real people. Moishe Almazoff was the pen-name of Solomon Pearl who left Canada for New York where he wrote for a Yiddish paper: The Morgan Freiheit.