Released:
1982-08-03

Overview:
In this drama with socio-political nuances, a heroic engineer is able to save the passengers on his train from injury or death by sacrificing his own life when his locomotive crashes. An investigator Ermakov and journalist Malinin are both involved in the story of the crash but from two different angles: the investigator wants to find out why it happened, the journalist wants to laud the heroism of the dead engineer.

Director:
Vadim Abdrashitov

Runtime:
1h 36min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Oleg Borisov
  as
  Ermakov, an investigator
• 
  Anatoliy Solonitsyn
  as
  Malinin, a journalist
• 
  Mikhail Gluzskiy
  as
  Panteleyev
• 
  Nina Ruslanova
  as
  Maria Ignatyevna
• 
  Lyudmila Zaytseva
  as
  Timonina