It Began This Way...

It Began This Way...

98 mins | Drama | Dec. 25, 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...

It Began This Way...

98 mins | Drama | Dec. 25, 1956

It Began This Way...
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...
Producers Gorky Film Studios
Original title Это начиналось так...
Directors Yakov Segel, Lev Kulidzhanov
Writers Solomon Garbuzov, Yakov Segel, Lev Kulidzhanov

Cast

Vladimir Yemelyanov

as Grishanin

Valentin Zubkov

as Skvortsov

Liliya Aleshnikova

as Tanya Gromova

Nikolai Dovzhenko

as Lyosha Antonov

Natalya Pavlova

as Zhenya Grishanina

Vladimir Ratomsky

as police chief

Rolan Bykov

as Lapshin

Boris Lifanov

as Burkach

Olga Korotkevich

as Burkach's wife

Vladimir Lebedev

as forwarder

Nikolay Smorchkov

as Gennadiy

Boris Batashev

as agronomist

Olga Aroseva

as Raya

Yuri Arkhiptsev

as Sasha

Valerian Kalinin

as Zavyalov

Pavel Volkov

as Lyosha's father

Aleksandr Timontayev

as taxi driver

Nikolai Parfyonov

as policeman