"The peaceful life of an exemplary collective farm is being rent asunder by shortages and dissent, and a commissar is sent to uncover the source of the problems, unaware that their is actual sabotage involved."
Nikolai Bogolyubov
as Commissar Nikolai Mironovich
Aleksey Petrov
as Gerasim Platonovich
Yelena Yunger
as Varvara Nechayeva Plantinovichna
Boris Poslavsky
as Yegor Nechayev, her brother
Vladimir Gardin
as Grandfather Anisim
Vladimir Sladkopevtsev
as Volodka
Vladimir Lukin
as Farm Secretary Matveyev
Kateryna Korchahina-Aleksandrovska
as Mother Platonivichna
Ivan Chuvelyov
as Kostya
Valeri Solovtsov
as Assistant chief of the politotdel
Pyotr Aleynikov
as Petka, a boy
Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina
as Villager
Pavel Volkov
Ksenia Denisova
as Collective farmer
Olga Kaziko
as Nyusha
Stepan Kayukov
Nikolay Kondratyev
Pyotr Pirogov
as Officer
Viktor Portnov
Fedor Slavski
Boris Chirkov
as Guy with accordion/Red Army Soldier
Fridrikh Ermler
Director
Aleksandr Gintsburg
Director of Photography
Venedict Pushkov
Original Music Composer
Writer
Manuel Bolshintsov
Ivan Dmitriyev
Sound Director
Nikolai Suvorov
Production Design
Vasily Semyonov
Assistant Production Design
Nikolay Rabinovich
Conductor
Assistant Director
Sam Gershtenzang
Nina Kerstens
Editor
M. Chernova