1936 · Margarita Barskaya · 72 min
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.
Lev SverdlinPyotr VolkovGennadiy VolovichBoris Volkov
Vyacheslav NovikovParty committee secretary
Mikhail TarkhanovWatchmanYevdokia SchastlivtsevaNanny
Teodor Vulfovich
Olga ZhiznevaValya's mother
Aleksey KonsovskiySemechkin
Margarita BarskayaSchool teacher
Pyotr ArzhanovCrook
Ivan BobrovThiefs gang member (uncredited)
Nikolai ValbertWorker on the meetingNadezhda Vysokovskaya(uncredited)
Mykola MakarenkoForeman (uncredited)
Sergey NikonovPoliceman (uncredited)