
The film is set in the 1930s in the USSR. The film tells about one day of the construction of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. The heroes of the film are simple construction workers who are burning at work. Upon learning that their colleagues in Kharkov have set a record, they mobilize to break it. The entire construction site was engulfed in immense socialist competition. The teams are ready to complete the work on time at any cost. A Moscow journalist who has come to cover the scale of the great construction project is looking for the hero of his report...
Shura Soldatova

Olya Tregubova

Margulies

Korneyev

Ishchenko

Khanumov

Sayenko

Zagirov

Mosya

Fenya

Katya

Klava

Nalbandov

writer

Vinkich

Semechkin

Thomas Bixby

Sigov

Filonov

Slobodkin

Ivan Kuzmich

concrete mixer
"Rembrandt"
engineer

Nastenka
brigade member

Chebotaryov

worker
worker

Lushka

female foreman

correspondent

Stepan Petrov

press photographer

photographer
accordionist

member of the campaign team
worker

telephonist

telephonist

telephonist

local policeman

military man

Vasily Smetana - concrete worker
storekeeper Marusya