It Began This Way...

A Moscow group of Komsomol members arrives on the virgin lands, in the Kazakh steppes, and immediately faces bureaucracy and carelessness. Someone flees the state farm for more reliable earnings, and someone simply does not want to work. But a new energetic director appears — and real life begins...

• Yakov SegelWriter
• Yakov SegelDirector
• Lev KulidzhanovDirector
• Lev KulidzhanovWriter
• Solomon GarbuzovWriter
• Aleksandr LokshinOriginal Music Composer

• Vladimir YemelyanovGrishanin
• Valentin ZubkovSkvortsov
• Liliya AleshnikovaTanya Gromova
• Nikolai DovzhenkoLyosha Antonov
• Natalya PavlovaZhenya Grishanina
• Vladimir Ratomskypolice chief
• Rolan BykovLapshin
• Boris LifanovBurkach
• Olga KorotkevichBurkach's wife
• Vladimir Lebedevforwarder
• Nikolay SmorchkovGennadiy
• Boris Batashevagronomist