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Status
Released
Release
1928
Runtime
58m
The vain station master of a Russian train station out in the sticks has a quarrel with an old peasant woman and has her thrown in jail. The local party youth organisation finally manage to get her released, after having to cut through lots of red tape.
19 Cast Members
Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina
Pelagia Dyomina
Anatoliy Bykov
'Don Diego', stationmaster
Volodymyr Mikhajlov
Pelagia's husband
I. Levkoyeva
Komsomol member
Ivan Yudin
Misha, komsomol member
Vladimir Popov
Village council caretaker
Osip Brik
Speaker on the dangers of bureaucracy
Alexandr Gromov
Registration and distribution official
Daniil Vvedenskiy
Watchman
Mikhail Zharov
Mikhail Zharov
Yelena Tyapkina
Priestess
Ivan Pelttser
OU secretary
Vera Maretskaya
Woman in the courtroom
Andrei Gorchilin
(uncredited)
Nikolay Ivakin
Komsomol member, cooperative vendor (uncredited)
Sofya Levitina
Woman in the prison (uncredited)
M. Libakov-Ilyinskiy
(uncredited)
Lev Fenin
Friend of the head of the railway section service (uncredited)
Mariya Shlenskaya
Deaf old woman (uncredited)
