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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
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 RyzhukhinMakukhinExplore the crew
- Director
- Vladimir Vengerov
- Editor
- Stera Gorakova
- Director of Photography
- Genrikh Marandzhyan
- Writer
- Vera Panova
- Original Music Composer
- Isaac Schwarts