An American engineer, consulting on a Soviet construction project, inspires a backward and timid new foreman to learn better about his job, assert himself, solve problems and inspire his own men to bring the job in ahead of schedule.
Cast
Nikolai Okhlopkov
Foreman Zakharov
Viktor Stanitsyn
Engineer Cline, American
Alexander Geirot
Engineer Petrov
Sofya Yakovleva
Translator
Vasiliy Kovrigin
Chief of the constitution site
Sergey Polyakov
Vasyutka, stoker
Fyodor Kurikhin
Machinist
Pavel Olenev
Perepyolkin
Nikolai Plotnikov
Chairman of the committee (uncredited)
Olena Maksymova
Worker woman (uncredited)
Tatyana Okunevskaya
Marusya (uncredited)
Crew
Aleksandr Macheret
Director, Writer
Esfir Tobak
Editor
Aleksandr Galperin
Director of Photography
S. Ter
First Assistant Director
K. Krumin
Assistant Director
Mikhail Romm
Assistant Director
N. Matrosov
Producer
Aleksei Utkin
Production Design
A. Sevortyan
Camera Operator
Nikolay Vlasov
Assistant Camera
Nikolai Timartsev
Sound Director
V. Popov
Sound
V. Kuznetsov
Lighting Artist
Vissarion Shebalin
Original Music Composer
Nikolai Kryukov
Original Music Composer
Sergey Germanov
Original Music Composer