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.
Nikolai Bogolyubov
Commissar Nikolai Mironovich
Aleksey Petrov
Gerasim Platonovich
Yelena Yunger
Varvara Nechayeva Plantinovichna
Boris Poslavsky
Yegor Nechayev, her brother
Vladimir Gardin
Grandfather Anisim
Vladimir Sladkopevtsev
Volodka
Vladimir Lukin
Farm Secretary Matveyev
Kateryna Korchahina-Aleksandrovska
Mother Platonivichna
Ivan Chuvelyov
Kostya
Valeri Solovtsov
Assistant chief of the politotdel
Pyotr Aleynikov
Petka, a boy
Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina
Villager
Qwerty
That Evening Sun
An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano
The Cow
The Dazzled
The German Lesson
Earth
Farming
The Divide
The Source