The story of an effort to catch "wreckers" at work in a Soviet factory. The film’s title-song called "The Song of the Counterplan", composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, became world famous and was adapted into "Au-devant de la vie", a notable song of the French socialist movement of the 1930s.
Fridrikh Ermler
Director, Writer
Sergei Yutkevich
Director, Writer
Lev Arnshtam
Writer
Leonid Lyubashevsky
Writer

Vladimir Gardin
Babchenko

Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina
Babchikha

Tatyana Guretskaya
Katya

Andrei Abrikosov
Pavel

Boris Tenin
Vasya

Boris Poslavsky
Skvorzov
Mariya Pototskaya
Ego mat (as M. Pototskaya)
Leonid Alekseev
Direktor zavoda (as A. Alekseev)
Nikolay Kozlovsky
Lazarev
Конец Санкт-Петербурга67%
Salomé62%
Полеты во сне и наяву64%
La joven69%
Fast Girls60%
Lorelei59%
Hands of Stone66%
Вор70%
O'Dessa58%
Eleanor the Great68%
I'm Not Here58%
El Greco59%
207366%
Charm City Kings78%
Bastard Out of Carolina71%
Reading Lolita in Tehran73%
Adam64%
Come Sunday58%
Adopt a Highway66%
Girl in the Box67%