154 minutes
11/21/1965
The film is set in the 1930s in the USSR. The film tells about one day of the construction of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. The heroes of the film are simple construction workers who are burning at work. Upon learning that their colleagues in Kharkov have set a record, they mobilize to break it. The entire construction site was engulfed in immense socialist competition. The teams are ready to complete the work on time at any cost. A Moscow journalist who has come to cover the scale of the great construction project is looking for the hero of his report...
Inna Gulaya
as Shura Soldatova
Tamara Syomina
as Olya Tregubova
Sergei Yursky
as Margulies
Leonid Kuravlyov
as Korneyev
Aleksandr Yanvaryov
as Ishchenko
Vladimir Kashpur
as Khanumov
Stanislav Khitrov
as Sayenko
Radner Muratov
as Zagirov
Vadim Zobin
as Mosya
Yelena Korolyova
as Fenya
Larysa Kadochnykova
as Katya
Tatyana Lavrova
as Klava
Efim Kopelyan
as Nalbandov
Yuri Volyntsev
as writer
Igor Yasulovich
as Vinkich
Viktor Sergachyov
as Semechkin
Bruno O'Ya
as Thomas Bixby
Viktor Semyonov
as Sigov
Boris Yurchenko
as Filonov
Yevgeni Kharitonov
as Slobodkin
Nikolai Sergeyev
as Ivan Kuzmich
Georgiy Shaposhnikov
as concrete mixer
Igor Kryukov
as "Rembrandt"
Lev Durov
as engineer
Svetlana Starikova
as Nastenka
Valentina Ananina
as brigade member
German Kolushkin
as Chebotaryov
Stanislav Simonov
as worker
Boris Gitin
as worker
Klara Rumyanova
as Lushka
Inna Fyodorova
as female foreman
Vladimir Vengerov
as correspondent
Vladimir Udalov
as Stepan Petrov
Viktor Markin
as press photographer
El Traktovenko
as photographer
Viktor Pavlov
as accordionist
Vitaliy Kanevskiy
as member of the campaign team
Vasiliy Kornukov
as worker
Nadezhda Samsonova
as telephonist
Margarita Zharova
as telephonist
Elena Volskaya
as telephonist
Mikhail Kokshenov
as local policeman
Vitaly Belyakov
as military man
Nikolay Fedortsov
as Vasily Smetana - concrete worker
Nelli Snegina
as storekeeper Marusya