Ivan

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.

Drama

Konstantin Bondarevsky

(Young Ivan)

Dmytro Holubynskyi

(Secretary)

Elena Golik

(Mother of Killed Worker)

Mikhail Gornatko

Aleksandr Zapolski

(Supervisor)

Petro Masokha

(Ivan Guba)

Mykola Nademskyi

Peter Pastushkov

Stepan Shahaida

(Stepan Vasiliyevich, the Foreman)

Stepan Shkurat

(Stepan Iosovich Guba, the Idler)

Terentiy Yura

(Philistine Foreman)

Mikola Grigorovich Tretyakov

(Tretyakov)

Avgust Avgustovich Shults

(Shults)

Pavlo Ivanovich Orov

(Orov)

Isatula Sadikovich Ibatulin

(Ibatulin)

Oleksandr Stepanovich Zhakharov

(Zhakharov)

Musiyi Samuyilovich Morochenko

(Morochenko)

Pavlo Ivanovich Lazhechnii

(Lazhechnii)

Feodosiya Barvinskaya

(Townman's Wife)

Mikhail Gayvoronsky

(Kulak Sympathizer)