
A young farmer Ivan and his lazy father Stepan try to help with the construction of the Dniprohes, but he learns that strength is not enough for a worker and joins the Communist party.
Konstantin Bondarevsky
young Ivan
Dmytro Holubynskyi
Secretary
Elena Golki
mother of killed worker
Mikhail Gornatko
Aleksandr Zapolski
Supervisor
Petro Masokha
Ivan Guba

Mykola Nademskyi

Terentiy Yura
Philistine foreman
Peter Pastushkov

Stepan Shahaida
Stepan Vasyliovych, the foreman

Stepan Shkurat
Stepan Iosovich Guba, the idler
Avgust Avgustovich Shults
Pavlo Ivanovich Orov
Mikola Grigorovich
Ttetiakov
Avgust Avgustovich
Shults