

75 minutes
8/25/1956
A comedy about Krushchev's 'Virgin Lands' project, to transform the barren and inhospitable spaces of the vast Soviet Union into fertile agricultural plains. A classically Socialist-Realist narrative of an individual's 're-education'. Zhenia, a hapless idler, arrives with a band of enthusiastic young Konsomol members to build a new town in the steppe. Although his dream, like that of all the young participants, is 'to become a tractor driver and a hero', he isn't prepared to work for the honour.

Sergei Gurzo
as Zhenia Omega (Женька Омега)

Idris Nogajbayev
as Idris (Идрис)

Nina Grebeshkova
as Raia (Рая)

Mukhtar Bakhtygereev

Vladimir Boriskin
as Filia (Филя, энтузиаст)

Kenenbai Kozhabekov
as Havash Atabaev (Хаваш Атабаев)

Vsevolod Tyagushev
as Kotik (Котик)

Rimma Shorokhova
as Olga (Ольга)

Ivan Lobyzovskiy
as Borodavka (Бородавка)
Pavel Kairov
as Chausov (Чаусов)

Shakhan Musin
as Partorg (Парторг)
L. Olshevsky
as Dzyuba (Дзюба)
V. Skuridin
K. Alishev
L. Bodolazov
Tamara Dumnaya
Rakhia Koichubaeva

Viktor Uralsky

Nadezhda Samsonova
G. Fedorovsky
as Uncle Vasia (Дядя Вася)