Overview

The films hero is a metal worker named Ignat who is as strong and tough as the steel that his sprawling factory produces in the Ural Mountains. Its a great cheerless environment; life is arduous and dangerous; conditions at the plant are nearly subhuman. The only excitement in the grimy industrial town is provided by robbing a train at gunpoint or stealing sheep from the Bashkiri tribe. The most renowned diversion, however, is the annual fist fight between the strongest metal worker and the strongest miner from the region. Against his better judgment, but with the support of his co-workers, Ignat decides to take part in this perilous venture.

Top Cast

Evgeniy Sidikhin

Ignat

Aleksandr Kalyagin

Foreman

Yuriy Yakovlev

General

Aleksandr Feklistov

Mityai

Mikhail Golubovich

Nasekin

Valentin Smirnitskiy

Filipp Ilyich

Gosha Kutsenko

Fyodor

Sergey Garmash

Man in drinking-house

Nikolai Karnaukhov

Old man

Mikhail Svetin

Larisa Borodina

Aleksandr Feklistov