The Shining Path

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.

Top Cast

Lyubov OrlovaTatyana Ivanovna "Tanya" Morozova

Evgeniy SamoylovAleksei Nikolaevich Lebedev

Yelena TyapkinaMariya Sergeyevna Pronina

Vladimir VolodinPyotr Ustinich Taldykin

Anastasiya ZuyevaAgrafena, the funny-looking weaver

Vera AltayskayaKlava

Nikolai KonovalovNikolai Zubkov, factory foreman

Pavel OlenevKurnakov, chief foreman