The Worker's Settlement

The Worker's Settlement

130 mins | Drama | April 25, 1966

Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. Against his will, he became a dependent. He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness, thereby tormenting his wife Mariya and his teenage son Lyonka. Mariya finally decides to take her son and leave for Altai, but the boy runs away and returns to his father. So, together, they eke out a half-miserable existence until Grigoriy Shalagin, Pleshcheyev's longtime friend, returns from the army. It is he who awakens in Leonid the extinct self-esteem and pride of a soldier. Pity aside, he helps him get back to work.

The Worker's Settlement

130 mins | Drama | April 25, 1966

The Worker's Settlement
Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. Against his will, he became a dependent. He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness, thereby tormenting his wife Mariya and his teenage son Lyonka. Mariya finally decides to take her son and leave for Altai, but the boy runs away and returns to his father. So, together, they eke out a half-miserable existence until Grigoriy Shalagin, Pleshcheyev's longtime friend, returns from the army. It is he who awakens in Leonid the extinct self-esteem and pride of a soldier. Pity aside, he helps him get back to work.
Producers Lenfilm
Original title Рабочий поселок
Directors Vladimir Vengerov
Writers Vera Panova

Cast

Oleg Borisov

as Leonid Pleshcheyev

Lyudmila Gurchenko

as Mariya

Nikolai Simonov

as Sotnikov

Tatyana Doronina

as Polina

Viktor Avdyushko

as Shalagin

Yelena Dobronravova

as Frosya Mekhotneva

Lyubov Sokolova

as Kapustina

Viktor Chekmaryov

as Moshkin

Aleksandr Sokolov

as Prokhorov

Mariya Prizvan-Sokolova

as Prokhorova

Stanislav Chekan

as Akhromovich

Boris Ryzhukhin

as Makukhin

Aleksei Dogadayev

as Lyonya Pleshcheyev

Stanislav Sokolov

as Lyonya in youth

Viktor Tregubovich

as policeman

Tamara Konovalova

as Natasha

Boris Arakelov

as Kostya

Valery Zimenkov

as Pavel

Nadezhda Seraya

as Pavel's sister

Galina Teplinskaya

as Polina's friend

Valeriy Veselov

as Alyosha

Sergey Golubev

as passenger (uncredited)

Svetlana Mazovetskaya

as woman in the reception area of the factory director (uncredited)

Oleg Khromenkov

as militiaman (uncredited)

Zinaida Karpova

as Moshkin's wife (uncredited)

Viktor Chaynikov

as factory worker (uncredited)

Konstantin Malakhov

as factory worker (uncredited)

Leonid Makaryev

as workshop foreman (uncredited)