Film
The Shining Path
SU- Director
- Grigori Aleksandrov
- Year
- 1940
Tanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her education and the Stakhanovite movement. She becomes a shock labourer and ascends through the Party ranks, ultimately being elected as a member of the Supreme Soviet.
Top cast
Lyubov Orlova
Tatyana Ivanovna "Tanya" Morozova
Evgeniy Samoylov
Aleksei Nikolaevich Lebedev
Yelena Tyapkina
Mariya Sergeyevna Pronina
Vladimir Volodin
Pyotr Ustinich Taldykin
Anastasiya Zuyeva
Agrafena, the funny-looking weaver
Vera Altayskaya
Klava
Nikolai Konovalov
Nikolai Zubkov, factory foreman
Pavel Olenev
Kurnakov, chief foreman
Osip Abdulov
Dorokhov, factory director
Rina Zelyonaya
Blond Secretary
Aleksandra Teryokhina
Varya
Nadezhda Vysokovskaya
Fyodor Seleznyov
Samokhin
Anatoliy Dudorov
Photographer (uncredited)
Pavel Geraga
Military man (uncredited)
Viktor Gromov
Factory Deputy Director (uncredited)
Nadezhda Kovalyova
Appearing (uncredited)
Nina Fedosyuk
Marusya
Directed by
Grigori Aleksandrov
Written by
Viktor Ardov
Produced by
B. Chizhov