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It Began This Way...

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It Began This Way...

3.7

1h 38m

1956

Synopsis

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...

Director

Lev Kulidzhanov

Yakov Segel

Drama

Cast & Crew

Vladimir Yemelyanov

Vladimir Yemelyanov

as Grishanin

Valentin Zubkov

Valentin Zubkov

as Skvortsov

Liliya Aleshnikova

Liliya Aleshnikova

as Tanya Gromova

Nikolai Dovzhenko

Nikolai Dovzhenko

as Lyosha Antonov

Natalya Pavlova

as Zhenya Grishanina

Vladimir Ratomsky

Vladimir Ratomsky

as police chief

Rolan Bykov

Rolan Bykov

as Lapshin

Boris Lifanov

Boris Lifanov

as Burkach

Olga Korotkevich

as Burkach's wife

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