Tanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her education and the Stakhanovite movement. She becomes a shock labourer and ascends through the Party ranks, ultimately being elected as a member of the Supreme Soviet.
as Tatyana Ivanovna "Tanya" Morozova
as Aleksei Nikolaevich Lebedev
as Mariya Sergeyevna Pronina
as Pyotr Ustinich Taldykin
as Agrafena, the funny-looking weaver
as Klava
as Nikolai Zubkov, factory foreman
as Kurnakov, chief foreman
as Dorokhov, factory director
as Blond Secretary
as Varya