Soviet factory drama where a fake worker hero gets absolutely roasted by two chaotic besties.
The engineer and the reporter arrived at one of the plants of the Altai. They have just completed the institutions and are confident that the future is in their hands. At the plant, all relations are formed around the dubious glory of the Turner Milovidov. A fresh look, self-confidence and each other help friends to expose the "record holder".
Acting
Bykov and Smoktunovskiy's crackling best-friend chemistry carries every scene.
Production
Glorious industrial Altai landscapes that scream 'we built this, comrade'.
Director
Adolf Bergunker
Leonid Bykov
Nikolay Zhukov
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Andrey Korolev
Klara Luchko
Antonina Ivanovna Kovrigina
Georgiy Yumatov
Yasha Milovidov
Nikolai Rybnikov
Sergey Gavrilovich Chumov
Oleg Efremov
Secreter of Komsomol
Nina Doroshina
Lyuba Zvonaryova
Lyudmila Shagalova
Nina
Boris Chirkov
Stepan Demyanovich Stoletov
Pyotr Lobanov
Syurtukov
Muza Krepkogorskaya
Valya Nazarenko
Boris Arakelov
Yura
Anatoli Abramov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the Khrushchev Thaw's 'expose films' that criticized Stalin-era fraud while still praising socialist labor—walking a very thin ideological tightrope.
Leonid Bykov would later become beloved as the director-star of 'Only Old Men Are Going to Battle' (1973), making this an early glimpse of his signature earnest-charm energy.
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