Top Cast
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Nikolai Bogolyubov
Commissar Nikolai Mironovich
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Aleksey Petrov
Gerasim Platonovich
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Yelena Yunger
Varvara Nechayeva Plantinovichna
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Boris Poslavsky
Yegor Nechayev, her brother
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Vladimir Gardin
Grandfather Anisim
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Vladimir Sladkopevtsev
Volodka
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Vladimir Lukin
Farm Secretary Matveyev
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Ekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya
Mother Platonivichna
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Ivan Chuvelyov
Kostya
Overview
The peaceful life of an exemplary collective farm is being rent asunder by shortages and dissent, and a commissar is sent to uncover the source of the problems, unaware that their is actual sabotage involved.
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