The Shining Path

Synopsis

Tanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her education and the Stakhanovite movement. She becomes a shock labourer and ascends through the Party ranks, ultimately being elected as a member of the Supreme Soviet.

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Key crew

• Grigori AleksandrovDirector
• Viktor ArdovWriter
• Isaak DunayevskyOriginal Music Composer

Cast

• Lyubov OrlovaTatyana Ivanovna "Tanya" Morozova
• Evgeniy SamoylovAleksei Nikolaevich Lebedev
• Yelena TyapkinaMariya Sergeyevna Pronina
• Vladimir VolodinPyotr Ustinich Taldykin
• Anastasiya ZuyevaAgrafena, the funny-looking weaver
• Vera AltayskayaKlava
• Nikolai KonovalovNikolai Zubkov, factory foreman
• Pavel OlenevKurnakov, chief foreman
• Osip AbdulovDorokhov, factory director
• Rina ZelyonayaBlond Secretary
• Aleksandra TeryokhinaVarya
• Nadezhda VysokovskayaCast

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