The films hero is a metal worker named Ignat who is as strong and tough as the steel that his sprawling factory produces in the Ural Mountains. Its a great cheerless environment; life is arduous and dangerous; conditions at the plant are nearly subhuman. The only excitement in the grimy industrial town is provided by robbing a train at gunpoint or stealing sheep from the Bashkiri tribe. The most renowned diversion, however, is the annual fist fight between the strongest metal worker and the strongest miner from the region. Against his better judgment, but with the support of his co-workers, Ignat decides to take part in this perilous venture.
Directed by Tamás Tóth
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Cast
Evgeniy Sidikhin
Ignat
Aleksandr Kalyagin
Foreman
Yuriy Yakovlev
General
Aleksandr Feklistov
Mityai
Mikhail Golubovich
Nasekin
Valentin Smirnitskiy
Filipp Ilyich
Gosha Kutsenko
Fyodor
Sergey Garmash
Man in drinking-house
Nikolai Karnaukhov
Old man
Mikhail Svetin
Larisa Borodina
Aleksandr Feklistov
Yuriy Kuznetsov
Aleksandr Kalyagin
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