The Worker's Settlement
1966Leonid 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.
Acted in
Oleg Borisov
as Leonid Pleshcheyev
Lyudmila Gurchenko
as Mariya
Nikolai Simonov
as Sotnikov
Tatyana Doronina
as Polina
Viktor Avdyushko
as Shalagin
Yelena Dobronravova
as Frosya Mekhotneva
Lyubov Sokolova
as Kapustina
Viktor Chekmaryov
as Moshkin
Aleksandr Sokolov
as Prokhorov
Stanislav Chekan
as Akhromovich
Mariya Prizvan-Sokolova
as Prokhorova
Boris Ryzhukhin
as Makukhin
Aleksei Dogadayev
as Lyonya Pleshcheyev
Stanislav Sokolov
as Lyonya in youth
Viktor Tregubovich
as policeman
Tamara Konovalova
as Natasha
Boris Arakelov
as Kostya
Valery Zimenkov
as Pavel
Nadezhda Seraya
as Pavel's sister
Galina Teplinskaya
as Polina's friend
Valeriy Veselov
as Alyosha
Sergey Golubev
as passenger (uncredited)
Svetlana Mazovetskaya
as woman in the reception area of the factory director (uncredited)
Oleg Khromenkov
as militiaman (uncredited)
Zinaida Karpova
as Moshkin's wife (uncredited)
Viktor Chaynikov
as factory worker (uncredited)
Konstantin Malakhov
as factory worker (uncredited)
Leonid Makaryev
as workshop foreman (uncredited)