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

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