Overview
A comedy about Krushchev's 'Virgin Lands' project, to transform the barren and inhospitable spaces of the vast Soviet Union into fertile agricultural plains. A classically Socialist-Realist narrative of an individual's 're-education'. Zhenia, a hapless idler, arrives with a band of enthusiastic young Konsomol members to build a new town in the steppe. Although his dream, like that of all the young participants, is 'to become a tractor driver and a hero', he isn't prepared to work for the honour.
Cast
- Sergei Gurzo as Zhenia Omega
- Idris Nogajbayev as Idris
- Nina Grebeshkova as Raia
- Mukhtar Bakhtygereev
- Vladimir Boriskin as Filia
- Kenenbai Kozhabekov as Havash Atabaev
- Vsevolod Tyagushev as Kotik
- Rimma Shorokhova as Olga (Ольга)
- Ivan Lobyzovskiy as Borodavka
- Pavel Kairov as Chausov