2.7 2 hours 10 minsLeonid 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.
Leonid Pleshcheyev
Mariya
Sotnikov
Polina
Shalagin
Frosya Mekhotneva
Kapustina
Moshkin
Prokhorov
Akhromovich
Prokhorova
Makukhin
Lyonya Pleshcheyev
Lyonya in youth
policeman
Natasha
Kostya
Pavel
Pavel's sister
Polina's friend
Alyosha
passenger (uncredited)
woman in the reception area of the factory director (uncredited)
militiaman (uncredited)
Moshkin's wife (uncredited)
factory worker (uncredited)
factory worker (uncredited)
workshop foreman (uncredited)
