Top cast
Nikolai Bogolyubov
Shakhov - the great citizen
Ivan Bersenev
Kartashov - the conspirator
Oleg Zhakov
Borovsky - the accomplice
Zoya Fyodorova
Nadya
Boris Poslavsky
Sizov
Aleksandr Zrazhevsky
Dubok
Boris Chirkov
Maksim, the investigator
Pyotr Kirillov
Briantsev - the assassin
Yefim Altus
Katz - Shakhov's helper
Yelena Yegorova
Evgeniy Pankov
Yevgeni Nemchenko
Dronov
Georgiy Semyonov
Kolesnikov
Valentin Kiselyov
Gladkikh
Aleksandr Polibin
Solovyev
Sergei Kurilov
Anatoliy Kuznetsov
Vershinin
Nadezhda Raiskaya-Dore
Shakhov's mother
Directed by
Fridrikh Ermler
Written by
Fridrikh Ermler, Mikhail Bleiman, Manuel Bolshintsov