Film
It Began This Way...
SU- Director
- Yakov Segel
- Year
- 1956
A Moscow group of Komsomol members arrives on the virgin lands, in the Kazakh steppes, and immediately faces bureaucracy and carelessness. Someone flees the state farm for more reliable earnings, and someone simply does not want to work. But a new energetic director appears — and real life begins...
Top cast
Vladimir Yemelyanov
Grishanin
Valentin Zubkov
Skvortsov
Liliya Aleshnikova
Tanya Gromova
Nikolai Dovzhenko
Lyosha Antonov
Natalya Pavlova
Zhenya Grishanina
Vladimir Ratomsky
police chief
Rolan Bykov
Lapshin
Boris Lifanov
Burkach
Olga Korotkevich
Burkach's wife
Vladimir Lebedev
forwarder
Nikolay Smorchkov
Gennadiy
Boris Batashev
agronomist
Olga Aroseva
Raya
Yuri Arkhiptsev
Sasha
Valerian Kalinin
Zavyalov
Pavel Volkov
Lyosha's father
Aleksandr Timontayev
taxi driver
Nikolai Parfyonov
policeman
Directed by
Yakov Segel, Lev Kulidzhanov
Written by
Yakov Segel, Lev Kulidzhanov, Solomon Garbuzov