While a factory director is distracted by production problems, his adolescent son suffers from loneliness. His mother is dead, and the father – a kind man and exemplary communist, winner of a Lenin Prize – is unable to find the time to educate his son, or a way to express his feelings. After an argument, the young boy runs away and, at his own risk, joins a band of criminals.
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Cast
Lev Sverdlin
Pyotr Volkov
Gennadiy Volovich
Boris Volkov
Vyacheslav Novikov
Party committee secretary
Mikhail Tarkhanov
Watchman
Yevdokia Schastlivtseva
Nanny
Teodor Vulfovich
Olga Zhizneva
Valya's mother
Aleksey Konsovskiy
Semechkin
Margarita Barskaya
School teacher
Pyotr Arzhanov
Crook
Ivan Bobrov
Thiefs gang member (uncredited)
Nikolai Valbert
Worker on the meeting
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