The read
It runs a compact 1h 28m.
Synopsis
An American engineer, consulting on a Soviet construction project, inspires a backward and timid new foreman to learn better about his job, assert himself, solve problems and inspire his own men to bring the job in ahead of schedule.
Ratings
TMDB3/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Aleksandr MacheretDirector
- Aleksandr MacheretWriter
- Vissarion ShebalinOriginal Music Composer
- Nikolai KryukovOriginal Music Composer
- Sergey GermanovOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Nikolai OkhlopkovForeman Zakharov
- Viktor StanitsynEngineer Cline, American
- Alexander GeirotEngineer Petrov
- Sofya YakovlevaTranslator
- Vasiliy KovriginChief of the constitution site
- Sergey PolyakovVasyutka, stoker
- Fyodor KurikhinMachinist
- Pavel OlenevPerepyolkin
- Nikolai PlotnikovChairman of the committee (uncredited)
- Elena MaksimovaWorker woman (uncredited)
- Tatyana OkunevskayaMarusya (uncredited)