The film is set in the 1930s in the USSR. The film tells about one day of the construction of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. The heroes of the film are simple construction workers who are burning at work. Upon learning that their colleagues in Kharkov have set a record, they mobilize to break it. The entire construction site was engulfed in immense socialist competition. The teams are ready to complete the work on time at any cost. A Moscow journalist who has come to cover the scale of the great construction project is looking for the hero of his report...
as Shura Soldatova
as Olya Tregubova
as Margulies
as Korneyev
as Ishchenko
as Khanumov
as Sayenko
as Zagirov
as Mosya
as Fenya
as Katya
as Klava
as Nalbandov
as writer
as Vinkich
as Semechkin
as Thomas Bixby
as Sigov
as Filonov
as Slobodkin
as Ivan Kuzmich
as concrete mixer
as "Rembrandt"
as engineer
as Nastenka
as brigade member
as Chebotaryov
as worker
as worker
as Lushka
as female foreman
as correspondent
as Stepan Petrov
as press photographer
as photographer
as accordionist
as member of the campaign team
as worker
as telephonist
as telephonist
as telephonist
as local policeman
as military man
as Vasily Smetana - concrete worker
as storekeeper Marusya
