In a Kazakh village at the beginning of Soviet power, a wealthy kulak (landowner) voluntarily denounces his opposition to the new regime and hands over his large home to be a new school for the children of the villagers. But three people in the village have difficulty believing that their class enemy is now their friend.
Cast
Mikhail Narokov
Yepifan Okatov
Andrei Abrikosov
Innolentiy Okatov
Boris Tenin
Roman Kargapolov, former shepherd
Emma Tsesarskaya
Feshka
Marina Ladynina
Linka
Nikolai Plotnikov
Larya
Khakim Davletbekov
Ablai
Pyotr Repnin
Buteshkin
Alexandr Gromov
Onisim
Ivan Bobrov
Pikulin
Nikolai Vitovtov
Klyushkin (uncredited)
Yakov Rykov
Klyushkin’s brother (uncredited)
Ivan Lyubeznov
local poet (uncredited)
Nikolay Trofimov
local culture instructor (uncredited)
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