The Shining Path (1940)
Tanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her education and the Stakhanovite movement. She becomes a shock labourer and ascends through the Party ranks, ultimately being elected as a member of the Supreme Soviet.
- Released
- 1940-10-07
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Grigori Aleksandrov
- TMDB rating
- 4.9/10 from 9 votes
Cast
- Lyubov Orlova as Tatyana Ivanovna "Tanya" Morozova
- Evgeniy Samoylov as Aleksei Nikolaevich Lebedev
- Yelena Tyapkina as Mariya Sergeyevna Pronina
- Vladimir Volodin as Pyotr Ustinich Taldykin
- Anastasiya Zuyeva as Agrafena, the funny-looking weaver
- Vera Altayskaya as Klava
- Nikolai Konovalov as Nikolai Zubkov, factory foreman
- Pavel Olenev as Kurnakov, chief foreman
- Osip Abdulov as Dorokhov, factory director
- Rina Zelyonaya as Blond Secretary
- Aleksandra Teryokhina as Varya
- Nadezhda Vysokovskaya