While a factory director is distracted by production problems, his adolescent son suffers from loneliness. His mother is dead, and the father – a kind man and exemplary communist, winner of a Lenin Prize – is unable to find the time to educate his son, or a way to express his feelings. After an argument, the young boy runs away and, at his own risk, joins a band of criminals.
Directed by Margarita Barskaya
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Cast

Lev Sverdlin
Pyotr Volkov
Gennadiy Volovich
Boris Volkov

Vyacheslav Novikov
Party committee secretary

Mikhail Tarkhanov
Watchman
Yevdokia Schastlivtseva
Nanny

Teodor Vulfovich

Olga Zhizneva
Valya's mother

Aleksey Konsovskiy
Semechkin

Margarita Barskaya
School teacher

Pyotr Arzhanov
Crook

Ivan Bobrov
Thiefs gang member (uncredited)

Nikolai Valbert
Worker on the meeting
Nadezhda Vysokovskaya
(uncredited)

Mykola Makarenko
Foreman (uncredited)
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