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It Began This Way... (1956)
Directed by Lev Kulidzhanov, Yakov Segel
Drama · 1h 38m
A Moscow group of Komsomol members arrives on the virgin lands, in the Kazakh steppes, and immediately faces bureaucracy and carelessness. Someone flees the state farm for more reliable earnings, and someone simply does not want to work. But a new energetic director appears — and real life begins...
Cast
Vladimir Yemelyanov
Grishanin
Valentin Zubkov
Skvortsov
Liliya Aleshnikova
Tanya Gromova
Nikolai Dovzhenko
Lyosha Antonov
N
Natalya Pavlova
Zhenya Grishanina
Vladimir Ratomsky
police chief
Rolan Bykov
Lapshin
B
Boris Lifanov
Burkach
O
Olga Korotkevich
Burkach's wife
V
Vladimir Lebedev
forwarder
Nikolay Smorchkov
Gennadiy
Boris Batashev
agronomist
Crew
- Director
- Lev Kulidzhanov, Yakov Segel
- Writer
- Solomon Garbuzov, Lev Kulidzhanov, Yakov Segel
- Director of Photography
- Vyacheslav Shumskiy
- Original Music Composer
- Aleksandr Lokshin
Details
- Original title
- Это начиналось так...
- Release date
- 1956-12-25
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- Gorky Film Studios