An Unquiet Spring

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.

Directed by Aleksandr Medvedkin

Top cast

Sergei Gurzo

Zhenia Omega

Idris Nogajbayev

Idris

Nina Grebeshkova

Raia

Mukhtar Bakhtygereev

Vladimir Boriskin

Filia

Kenenbai Kozhabekov

Havash Atabaev

Vsevolod Tyagushev

Kotik

Rimma Shorokhova

Olga (Ольга)

Ivan Lobyzovskiy

Borodavka

P

Pavel Kairov

Chausov

Shakhan Musin

Organisator from the Party

L

L. Olshevsky

Dzyuba

V

V. Skuridin

K

K. Alishev

L

Leonid Vodolazov

T

Tamara Dumnaya

R

Rakhia Koichubaeva

Viktor Uralsky

Nadezhda Samsonova

G

Gleb Fedorovsky

Uncle Vasia

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