Don Diego and Pelagia

The vain station master of a Russian train station out in the sticks has a quarrel with an old peasant woman and has her thrown in jail. The local party youth organisation finally manage to get her released, after having to cut through lots of red tape.

• Yakov ProtazanovDirector
• Vasily LokotWriter

• Mariya Blyumental-TamarinaPelagia Dyomina
• Anatoliy Bykov'Don Diego', stationmaster
• Vladimir MikhaylovPelagia's husband
• I. LevkoyevaKomsomol member
• Ivan YudinMisha, komsomol member
• Vladimir PopovVillage council caretaker
• Osip BrikSpeaker on the dangers of bureaucracy
• Alexandr GromovRegistration and distribution official
• Daniil VvedenskiyWatchman
• Mikhail ZharovMikhail Zharov
• Yelena TyapkinaPriestess
• Ivan PelttserOU secretary