It Began This Way...
6.5
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...
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Cast
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Vladimir Yemelyanov
Grishanin
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Valentin Zubkov
Skvortsov
Known for
Ivan's Childhood
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Federico Garcia Lorca
Yekaterina Aleksandrova
Lev Kulidzhanov
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The House I Live In
VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
Liliya Aleshnikova
Tanya Gromova
Also in
Wake Mukhin Up!
Grown-Up Children
Vyacheslav Shumskiy
Yakov Segel
Also in
Capt. Grant's Family
Two Smiles
Nikolai Dovzhenko
Lyosha Antonov
Also in
There Is Such a Lad
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Igor Bakhmetyev
Natalya Pavlova
Zhenya Grishanina
Nikolay Dovzhenko
Lyosha Antonov
Lev Kulidzhanov Director · Yakov Segel Director Solomon Garbuzov Writer
First release December 25, 1956 · Produced in Russia · Original title Это начиналось так...
Production
Gorky Film Studios
Production
Russia
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Original title
Это начиналось так...
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · December 25, 1956
Russia · December 25, 1956
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