96 minutes
10/1/1935
In a Kazakh village at the beginning of Soviet power, a wealthy kulak (landowner) voluntarily denounces his opposition to the new regime and hands over his large home to be a new school for the children of the villagers. But three people in the village have difficulty believing that their class enemy is now their friend.
Mikhail Narokov
as Yepifan Okatov
Andrei Abrikosov
as Innolentiy Okatov
Boris Tenin
as Roman Kargapolov, former shepherd
Emma Tsesarskaya
as Feshka
Marina Ladynina
as Linka
Nikolai Plotnikov
as Larya
Khakim Davletbekov
as Ablai
Pyotr Repnin
as Buteshkin
Alexandr Gromov
as Onisim
Ivan Bobrov
as Pikulin
Nikolai Vitovtov
as Klyushkin (uncredited)
Yakov Rykov
as Klyushkin’s brother (uncredited)
Ivan Lyubeznov
as local poet (uncredited)
Nikolay Trofimov
as local culture instructor (uncredited)