It Began This Way... (1956)
Это начиналось так...
A Moscow group of Komsomol members arrives on the virgin lands, in the Kazakh steppes, and immediately faces bureaucracy and carelessness. Someone flees the state farm for more reliable earnings, and someone simply does not want to work. But a new energetic director appears — and real life begins...
- Date of release
- 1956-12-25
- TMDB
- 5.2 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Lev Kulidzhanov, Yakov Segel
Casting
- Vladimir Yemelyanov — Grishanin
- Valentin Zubkov — Skvortsov
- Liliya Aleshnikova — Tanya Gromova
- Nikolai Dovzhenko — Lyosha Antonov
- Natalya Pavlova — Zhenya Grishanina
- Vladimir Ratomsky — police chief
- Rolan Bykov — Lapshin
- Boris Lifanov — Burkach
- Olga Korotkevich — Burkach's wife
- Vladimir Lebedev — forwarder
- Nikolay Smorchkov — Gennadiy
- Boris Batashev — agronomist
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