58 minutes
4/29/1928
The vain station master of a Russian train station out in the sticks has a quarrel with an old peasant woman and has her thrown in jail. The local party youth organisation finally manage to get her released, after having to cut through lots of red tape.
Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina
as Pelagia Dyomina
Anatoliy Bykov
as 'Don Diego', stationmaster
Vladimir Mikhaylov
as Pelagia's husband
I. Levkoyeva
as Komsomol member
Ivan Yudin
as Misha, komsomol member
Vladimir Popov
as Village council caretaker
Osip Brik
as Speaker on the dangers of bureaucracy
Alexandr Gromov
as Registration and distribution official
Daniil Vvedenskiy
as Watchman
Mikhail Zharov
as Mikhail Zharov
Yelena Tyapkina
as Priestess
Ivan Pelttser
as OU secretary
Vera Maretskaya
as Woman in the courtroom
Andrei Gorchilin
as (uncredited)
Nikolay Ivakin
as Komsomol member, cooperative vendor (uncredited)
Sofya Levitina
as Woman in the prison (uncredited)
M. Libakov-Ilyinskiy
as (uncredited)
Lev Fenin
as Friend of the head of the railway section service (uncredited)
Mariya Shlenskaya
as Deaf old woman (uncredited)