

73 minutes
6/6/1953
Alyosha Ptitsyn, a third-grader decides that he wants to improve his personality and immediately starts to act.

Nadezhda Rumyantseva
as Galya

Aleksandr Mikhajlov
as Tikhon Ivanovich

Natalya Seleznyova
as Sashenka

Valentina Sperantova
as granny Sima

Lidiya Sukharevskaya
as Lieutenant Sergienko
Viktor Kargopoltsev
as Alyosha

Anatoli Abramov
as porter (uncredited)

Olga Pyzhova
as Alyosha's grandma

Yuri Bublikov
as Anatoliy Andreyevich

Tamara Alyoshina
as Natalya Fyodorovna

Roza Makagonova
Stepan Kolchugin
Boris Vasilyev

Gennadi Khudyakov

Ivan Nazarov

Leonid Gallis

Anna Lisyanskaya

Ekaterina Savinova

Valentina Ushakova

Rudolf Furmanov

Lev Stepanov
Alexandra Trishko

Aleksandra Matveeva