The Worker's Settlement

(1966)

★ 3.8 IMDb · 4 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1966

Runtime: 138 мин

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Владимир Венгеров

Cast: Олег Борисов, Людмила Гурченко, Николай Симонов, Татьяна Доронина, Виктор Авдюшко, Елена Добронравова, Любовь Соколова, Виктор Чекмарёв, Александр Соколов, Станислав Чекан

Plot

Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. Against his will, he became a dependent. He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness, thereby tormenting his wife Mariya and his teenage son Lyonka. Mariya finally decides to take her son and leave for Altai, but the boy runs away and returns to his father. So, together, they eke out a half-miserable existence until Grigoriy Shalagin, Pleshcheyev's longtime friend, returns from the army. It is he who awakens in Leonid the extinct self-esteem and pride of a soldier. Pity aside, he helps him get back to work.