Overview

While a factory director is distracted by production problems, his adolescent son suffers from loneliness. His mother is dead, and the father – a kind man and exemplary communist, winner of a Lenin Prize – is unable to find the time to educate his son, or a way to express his feelings. After an argument, the young boy runs away and, at his own risk, joins a band of criminals.

Genres

Cast

Lev Sverdlin

Pyotr Volkov

Vyacheslav Novikov

Party committee secretary

Mikhail Tarkhanov

Watchman

Teodor Vulfovich

Olga Zhizneva

Valya's mother

Aleksey Konsovskiy

Semechkin

Margarita Barskaya

School teacher

Pyotr Arzhanov

Crook

Ivan Bobrov

Thiefs gang member (uncredited)

Nikolai Valbert

Worker on the meeting

Mykola Makarenko

Foreman (uncredited)

Sergey Nikonov

Policeman (uncredited)