Film deals with Stakhanovite movement. Old miners try to sabotage young man's plan to renew methods of getting coal.
Social & External
The people behind it
Aleksandr Antonov
Anton Mikhailovich Kulagin
Nikolay Kryuchkov
Stepan Kulagin
Daniil Sagal
Pavel Lugovoj
Zoya Fyodorova
Dunya Velichko
Aleksandr Zrazhevsky
Vladimir Nikolaevich Sokolov
Nikolai Konovalov
Miner Zaika / Dr. Starkovsky
Pyotr Savin
Sliva
Emanuel Apkhaidze
Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Iona Biy-Brodskiy
Vasiliy Grigoryevich, medic
Nikolai Yudin
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