High school student Andrei Goryayev faces a criminal liability for a hooligan misconduct. A compassionate witness pities the young man, and he is released. Having quarreled with his father, Goryayev leaves home and wanders around the capital until he accidentally finds himself in a new district of Moscow: at a construction site in Cheryomushki.
Cinematography
Cheryomushki actually looks appealing—Stalinist architecture's glow-up.
Acting
Kharitonov's restless energy sells the father-son tension.
Director
Yuri Ozerov
Leonid Kharitonov
Andrei Goryayev
Pyotr Konstantinov
Goryayev's father
Viktor Geraskin
Vasya Kozlov
Nadezhda Rumyantseva
Tamara
Konstantin Sorokin
Panechkin
Aleksei Gribov
Kondratyev
Vladimir Belokurov
Lavrov
Roza Makagonova
Shura
Aleksandr Mikhajlov
Volodya
Pavel Vinnik
Shibykin
Aleksandr Kleberer
classroom teacher
Ada Vojtsik
Vasya's mother
Pavel Shalnov
Lozhechkin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cheryomushki was real: Khrushchev's mass housing program, later satirized in the famous 1958 operetta.
Ozerov later directed the five-part epic 'Liberation'—this cheerful teen drama seems almost accidental in his filmography.
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