Don Diego and Pelagia

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.

Comedy Drama

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))