

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.
Director: Fridrikh Ermler

Commissar Nikolai Mironovich

Gerasim Platonovich

Varvara Nechayeva Plantinovichna

Yegor Nechayev, her brother

Grandfather Anisim

Volodka

Farm Secretary Matveyev

Mother Platonivichna

Kostya

Assistant chief of the politotdel