The Tight Knot

The farm's chairman took the late secretary's teenage son into his house.

• Venyamin BasnerOriginal Music Composer
• Vladimir TendryakovWriter
• Mikhail ShveitserDirector

• Viktor AvdyushkoPavel Mansurov
• Oleg TabakovSasha Komelev
• Nikolai SergeyevIgnat Gmyzin
• Ivan PereverzevParty Leader (Sasha cut)
• Vladimir YemelyanovParty Leader (Knot cut)
• Pavel VolkovMurgin, collective farm chairman
• Valentina PugachovaKatia Zelentsova
• Valentina BerezutskayaNastya Baklushin
• Antonina Bogdanovawife Gmyzina
• Yuri MedvedevMeshkov
• Svetlana KonovalovaAnna Mansurov
• Elena MaksimovaSasha's mother