The films hero is a metal worker named Ignat who is as strong and tough as the steel that his sprawling factory produces in the Ural Mountains. Its a great cheerless environment; life is arduous and dangerous; conditions at the plant are nearly subhuman. The only excitement in the grimy industrial town is provided by robbing a train at gunpoint or stealing sheep from the Bashkiri tribe. The most renowned diversion, however, is the annual fist fight between the strongest metal worker and the strongest miner from the region. Against his better judgment, but with the support of his co-workers, Ignat decides to take part in this perilous venture.
Cast
Evgeniy Sidikhin
Ignat
Aleksandr Kalyagin
Foreman, Unknown
Yuriy Yakovlev
General
Aleksandr Feklistov
Mityai, Unknown
Mikhail Golubovich
Nasekin
Valentin Smirnitskiy
Filipp Ilyich
Gosha Kutsenko
Fyodor
Sergey Garmash
Man in drinking-house
Nikolai Karnaukhov
Old man
Mikhail Svetin
Unknown
Larisa Borodina
Unknown
Yuriy Kuznetsov
Unknown
Yuri Slobodenyuk
Unknown
Anatoliy Mambetov
Unknown
Sergey Nerobeev
Unknown
Aleksandr Pyatkov
Unknown
Nikolai Averyushkin
Unknown
Sergey Gabrielyan
Unknown
Elena Kollegova
Unknown
Elena Ordynskaya
Unknown
Aleksei Shakhdin
Unknown
Crew
Tamás Tóth
Director
Aleksei Samoryadov
Screenplay
Pyotr Lutsik
Screenplay
Irma Tsekavaya
Editor
Sergei Kozlov
Director of Photography
Aleksandr Belkin
Additional Director of Photography
Yevgeniya Vzorova
Assistant Director
Elena Karavaeshnikova
Assistant Director
Karen Shakhnazarov
Producer
Vyacheslav Mayasov
Producer
Vladimir Korolyov
Production Design
Elena Ushakova
Costume Design
Galina Korolyova
Makeup Artist
Yuliya Egorova
Sound Director
Yuri Orlov
Music
