While a factory director is distracted by production problems, his adolescent son suffers from loneliness. His mother is dead, and the father – a kind man and exemplary communist, winner of a Lenin Prize – is unable to find the time to educate his son, or a way to express his feelings. After an argument, the young boy runs away and, at his own risk, joins a band of criminals.
Pyotr Volkov
Boris Volkov
Party committee secretary
Watchman
Nanny
Valya's mother
Semechkin
School teacher
Crook
Thiefs gang member (uncredited)
Worker on the meeting
(uncredited)
Foreman (uncredited)
Policeman (uncredited)
Thiefs gang member (uncredited)
Policeman (uncredited)