"The story of a young woman who, after her years at university in the city, returns to her hometown an engineer and begins work on a huge new power plant. She continues to supervise work on the plant throughout the war."
Tatyana Yeremeyeva
as Nina Ermakova
Natalia Kutasina
as Dusya Nikiforova
Viktor Khokhryakov
as Khomutov
Vladimir Dorofeyev
as Kovrikov
Nikolai Badyev
as Mosya
Aleksey Beryozkin
as Kutaysov
Gavriil Belov
as Vlasov
Dmitriy Dubov
as Vasiliy Sokolov (uncredited)
Vladimir Volkov
as Korney (uncredited)
Elena Volskaya
as Ninka (uncredited)
Aleksandra Macheret
as Komsomol member (uncredited)
Tamara Nosova
as Nurse Klava
Vsevolod Sanayev
as Radio anchorman (uncredited)
Zoya Tolbuzina
as Varka (uncredited)
Klavdiya Khabarova
as Nina's friend
Anatoli Chemodurov
as Worker (uncredited)
A. Shevelev
Executive Producer
Mykhailo Kaplan
Director of Photography
Yakov Kharon
Editor
Nikolai Kosarev
Sound Engineer
Boris Barnet
Director
Aleksandr Macheret
Valentin Kataev
Writer
Aleksandr Tsfasman
Original Music Composer
Vladimir Kaplunovskiy
Production Design
Pyotr Beitner
Ivan Stepanov
L. Mansurova
Assistant Editor
Yaropolk Lapshin
First Assistant Director
S. Chevychelov
Makeup & Hair
Pyotr Kalabukhov
Assistant Camera
Yevgeni Bryunchugin
Assistant Director