The cursed legacy for the young state are drunkards and truants, who have not yet rebuilt their lives in the new social conditions. But life is changing: the inhabitants of the commune dormitory, a huge, cubist-style house, “orderly” run in the morning for exercise, eat in the canteen, which resembles a factory conveyor belt.
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Boris Ferdinandov
Aleksey Brasyuk, drunkard
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Sofya Yakovleva
Brasyuk's wife
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Anya Fisher
Brasyuk's daughter
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Ivan Malikov-Elvorti
Young factory worker
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Volodymyr Lisovskyi
Truant
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Dmytro Kapka
Old man
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Mykola Braterskyi
Factory worker
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Ivan Marks
Chairman of the factory committee
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Tom Yavorskiy
Factory worker
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David Maryan Director · Georgiy Khimchenko Cinematographer Yosyp Shpinel Production designer
First release December 31, 1930 · Produced in Russia · Original title Життя в руках
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Russia
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Original title
Життя в руках
Original language
Ukrainian
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No dialogue
Release dates
Russia · December 31, 1930
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No release date listed for United States.
Russia
June 9, 1931 · Theatrical
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