Drama
It Began This Way...
A Moscow group of Komsomol members arrives on the virgin lands, in the Kazakh steppes, and immediately faces bureaucracy and carelessness. Someone flees the state farm for more reliable earnings, and someone simply does not want to work. But a new energetic director appears — and real life begins...
Directed by Yakov Segel, Lev Kulidzhanov, Nikolay Petrov
53
User score
4 votes
Status
Released
Released
December 25, 1956
Runtime
1h 38m
Language
Russian
Top cast
Vladimir Yemelyanov
Grishanin
Valentin Zubkov
Skvortsov
Liliya Aleshnikova
Tanya Gromova
Nikolai Dovzhenko
Lyosha Antonov
Natalya Pavlova
Zhenya Grishanina
Vladimir Ratomsky
police chief
Rolan Bykov
Lapshin
Boris Lifanov
Burkach
Olga Korotkevich
Burkach's wife
Vladimir Lebedev
forwarder
Nikolay Smorchkov
Gennadiy
Boris Batashev
agronomist
Olga Aroseva
Raya
Yuri Arkhiptsev
Sasha
Valerian Kalinin
Zavyalov
Pavel Volkov
Lyosha's father
Aleksandr Timontayev
taxi driver
Nikolai Parfyonov
policeman
Boris Lavrov
Registry office employee
Vasiliy Galaktionov
Brigadier
