The read
It runs a compact 1h 15m.
Synopsis
A comedy about Krushchev's 'Virgin Lands' project, to transform the barren and inhospitable spaces of the vast Soviet Union into fertile agricultural plains. A classically Socialist-Realist narrative of an individual's 're-education'. Zhenia, a hapless idler, arrives with a band of enthusiastic young Konsomol members to build a new town in the steppe. Although his dream, like that of all the young participants, is 'to become a tractor driver and a hero', he isn't prepared to work for the honour.
Ratings
TMDB10/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Aleksandr MedvedkinDirector
- Bakhitzhan BaykadamovOriginal Music Composer
- Yevgeni BrusilovskyOriginal Music Composer
- Aleksandr MedvedkinWriter
Cast
- Sergei GurzoZhenia Omega
- Idris NogajbayevIdris
- Nina GrebeshkovaRaia
- Mukhtar BakhtygereevCast
- Vladimir BoriskinFilia
- Kenenbai KozhabekovHavash Atabaev
- Vsevolod TyagushevKotik
- Rimma ShorokhovaOlga (Ольга)
- Ivan LobyzovskiyBorodavka
- Pavel KairovChausov
- Shakhan MusinOrganisator from the Party
- L. OlshevskyDzyuba