Drama
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.
Directed by
Vladimir Vengerov
Written by
Vera Panova
Viktor Avdyushko
Shalagin
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Mariya
Nikolai Simonov
Sotnikov
Lyubov Sokolova
Kapustina
Oleg Borisov
Leonid Pleshcheyev
Stanislav Chekan
Akhromovich
Stanislav Sokolov
Lyonya in youth
Boris Arakelov
Kostya
Viktor Chekmaryov
Moshkin
Tatyana Doronina
Polina
Boris Ryzhukhin
Makukhin
Oleg Khromenkov
militiaman (uncredited)
Aleksandr Sokolov
Prokhorov
Svetlana Mazovetskaya
woman in the reception area of the factory director (uncredited)
Yelena Dobronravova
Frosya Mekhotneva
Leonid Makaryev
workshop foreman (uncredited)
Mariya Prizvan-Sokolova
Prokhorova
Valeriy Veselov
Alyosha
Aleksei Dogadayev
Lyonya Pleshcheyev
Tamara Konovalova
Natasha
Valery Zimenkov
Pavel
Nadezhda Seraya
Pavel's sister
Galina Teplinskaya
Polina's friend
Sergey Golubev
passenger (uncredited)
Zinaida Karpova
Moshkin's wife (uncredited)
Viktor Chaynikov
factory worker (uncredited)
Konstantin Malakhov
factory worker (uncredited)

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