It Began This Way... (1956)
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...
- Released
- 1956-12-25
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Lev Kulidzhanov, Yakov Segel
- TMDB rating
- 5.2/10 from 4 votes
Cast
- Vladimir Yemelyanov as Grishanin
- Valentin Zubkov as Skvortsov
- Liliya Aleshnikova as Tanya Gromova
- Nikolai Dovzhenko as Lyosha Antonov
- Natalya Pavlova as Zhenya Grishanina
- Vladimir Ratomsky as police chief
- Rolan Bykov as Lapshin
- Boris Lifanov as Burkach
- Olga Korotkevich as Burkach's wife
- Vladimir Lebedev as forwarder
- Nikolay Smorchkov as Gennadiy
- Boris Batashev as agronomist