
The Worker's Settlement
Drama
Overview
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.
Top Cast


Oleg Borisov
Oleg Borisov
Leonid Pleshcheyev
Oleg Borisov
Leonid Pleshcheyev


Lyudmila Gurchenko
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Mariya
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Mariya


Nikolai Simonov
Nikolai Simonov
Sotnikov
Nikolai Simonov
Sotnikov


Tatyana Doronina
Tatyana Doronina
Polina
Tatyana Doronina
Polina


Viktor Avdyushko
Viktor Avdyushko
Shalagin
Viktor Avdyushko
Shalagin


Yelena Dobronravova
Yelena Dobronravova
Frosya Mekhotneva
Yelena Dobronravova
Frosya Mekhotneva


Lyubov Sokolova
Lyubov Sokolova
Kapustina
Lyubov Sokolova
Kapustina


Viktor Chekmaryov
Viktor Chekmaryov
Moshkin
Viktor Chekmaryov
Moshkin


Aleksandr Sokolov
Aleksandr Sokolov
Prokhorov
Aleksandr Sokolov
Prokhorov


Stanislav Chekan
Stanislav Chekan
Akhromovich
Stanislav Chekan
Akhromovich
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