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It Began This Way...

It Began This Way...

Lev Kulidzhanov, Yakov Segel

1956

  • Drama
5.2

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 & crew

  • Lev KulidzhanovDirector
  • Yakov SegelDirector
  • Vladimir YemelyanovGrishanin
  • Valentin ZubkovSkvortsov
  • Liliya AleshnikovaTanya Gromova
  • Nikolai DovzhenkoLyosha Antonov
  • Natalya PavlovaZhenya Grishanina
  • Vladimir Ratomskypolice chief
  • Rolan BykovLapshin
  • Boris LifanovBurkach

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