Tanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her education and the Stakhanovite movement. She becomes a shock labourer and ascends through the Party ranks, ultimately being elected as a member of the Supreme Soviet.
as Tatyana Ivanovna "Tanya" Morozova
as Aleksei Nikolaevich Lebedev
as Mariya Sergeyevna Pronina
as Pyotr Ustinich Taldykin
as Agrafena, the funny-looking weaver
as Klava
as Nikolai Zubkov, factory foreman
as Kurnakov, chief foreman
as Dorokhov, factory director
as Blond Secretary
as Varya
as Samokhin
as Photographer (uncredited)
as Military man (uncredited)
as Factory Deputy Director (uncredited)
as Appearing (uncredited)
as Marusya
as Khadija
