Overview
Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. Against his will, he became a dependent. He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness, thereby tormenting his wife Mariya and his teenage son Lyonka. Mariya finally decides to take her son and leave for Altai, but the boy runs away and returns to his father. So, together, they eke out a half-miserable existence until Grigoriy Shalagin, Pleshcheyev's longtime friend, returns from the army. It is he who awakens in Leonid the extinct self-esteem and pride of a soldier. Pity aside, he helps him get back to work.
Cast
- Oleg Borisov as Leonid Pleshcheyev
- Lyudmila Gurchenko as Mariya
- Nikolai Simonov as Sotnikov
- Tatyana Doronina as Polina
- Viktor Avdyushko as Shalagin
- Yelena Dobronravova as Frosya Mekhotneva
- Lyubov Sokolova as Kapustina
- Viktor Chekmaryov as Moshkin
- Aleksandr Sokolov as Prokhorov
- Stanislav Chekan as Akhromovich