In 1920 Poltava, Ukraine, the first Soviet colony for street boys was created. This film tells the story of these rebellious kids and how the colony's director sought to rehabilitate them by allowing them to govern themselves.
as Anton Semyonovich Makarenko
as Sasha Zadorov
as Grisha Burun
as Semyen Karabanov
as Stepan Perets
as Aleksei Maximovich "Maxim" Gorky
as Yekaterina Grigoryevna
as Anton Semyenovich "Toska" Solovyev
as Chairman of Public Education
as Kovrakh
as Kalina Ivanovich
as Ill boy
as Inspector Sharin
