96 minutes
10/7/1940
Tanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her education and the Stakhanovite movement. She becomes a shock labourer and ascends through the Party ranks, ultimately being elected as a member of the Supreme Soviet.
Lyubov Orlova
as Tatyana Ivanovna "Tanya" Morozova
Evgeniy Samoylov
as Aleksei Nikolaevich Lebedev
Yelena Tyapkina
as Mariya Sergeyevna Pronina
Vladimir Volodin
as Pyotr Ustinich Taldykin
Anastasiya Zuyeva
as Agrafena, the funny-looking weaver
Vera Altayskaya
as Klava
Nikolai Konovalov
as Nikolai Zubkov, factory foreman
Pavel Olenev
as Kurnakov, chief foreman
Osip Abdulov
as Dorokhov, factory director
Rina Zelyonaya
as Blond Secretary
Aleksandra Teryokhina
as Varya