The peaceful life of an exemplary collective farm is being rent asunder by shortages and dissent, and a commissar is sent to uncover the source of the problems, unaware that their is actual sabotage involved.

Commissar Nikolai Mironovich

Gerasim Platonovich

Varvara Nechayeva Plantinovichna

Yegor Nechayev, her brother

Grandfather Anisim

Volodka

Farm Secretary Matveyev

Mother Platonivichna

Kostya

Assistant chief of the politotdel

Petka, a boy

Villager

Villager

Collective farmer

Nyusha

Collective farmer
April 1, 1935

Commissar Nikolai Mironovich

Gerasim Platonovich

Varvara Nechayeva Plantinovichna

Yegor Nechayev, her brother

Grandfather Anisim

Volodka

Farm Secretary Matveyev

Mother Platonivichna

Kostya

Assistant chief of the politotdel

Petka, a boy

Villager

Villager

Collective farmer

Nyusha

Collective farmer

