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.
Directed by Vladimir Vengerov
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Cast
Oleg Borisov
Leonid Pleshcheyev
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Mariya
Nikolai Simonov
Sotnikov
Tatyana Doronina
Polina
Viktor Avdyushko
Shalagin
Yelena Dobronravova
Frosya Mekhotneva
Lyubov Sokolova
Kapustina
Viktor Chekmaryov
Moshkin
Aleksandr Sokolov
Prokhorov
Stanislav Chekan
Akhromovich
Mariya Prizvan-Sokolova
Prokhorova
Boris Ryzhukhin
Makukhin
Aleksei Dogadayev
Lyonya Pleshcheyev
Stanislav Sokolov
Lyonya in youth
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