The Worker's Settlement

Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. Against his will, he became a dependent. He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness, thereby tormenting his wife Mariya and his teenage son Lyonka. Mariya finally decides to take her son and leave for Altai, but the boy runs away and returns to his father. So, together, they eke out a half-miserable existence until Grigoriy Shalagin, Pleshcheyev's longtime friend, returns from the army. It is he who awakens in Leonid the extinct self-esteem and pride of a soldier. Pity aside, he helps him get back to work.

• Vladimir VengerovDirector
• Vera PanovaWriter
• Isaac SchwartsOriginal Music Composer

• Oleg BorisovLeonid Pleshcheyev
• Lyudmila GurchenkoMariya
• Nikolai SimonovSotnikov
• Tatyana DoroninaPolina
• Viktor AvdyushkoShalagin
• Yelena DobronravovaFrosya Mekhotneva
• Lyubov SokolovaKapustina
• Viktor ChekmaryovMoshkin
• Aleksandr SokolovProkhorov
• Stanislav ChekanAkhromovich
• Mariya Prizvan-SokolovaProkhorova
• Boris RyzhukhinMakukhin