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...
Inna Gulaya
Tamara Syomina
Sergei Yursky
Leonid Kuravlyov
Aleksandr Yanvaryov
Vladimir Kashpur
Stanislav Khitrov
Radner Muratov
Vadim Zobin
Yelena Korolyova
Larysa Kadochnykova
Tatyana Lavrova
Efim Kopelyan
Yuri Volyntsev
Igor Yasulovich
Viktor Sergachyov
Bruno O'Ya
Viktor Semyonov
Boris Yurchenko
Yevgeni Kharitonov
Nikolai Sergeyev
Georgiy Shaposhnikov
Igor Kryukov
Lev Durov
Svetlana Starikova
Valentina Ananina
German Kolushkin
Stanislav Simonov
Boris Gitin
Klara Rumyanova
Inna Fyodorova
Vladimir Vengerov
Vladimir Udalov
Viktor Markin
El Traktovenko
Viktor Pavlov
Vitaliy Kanevskiy
Vasiliy Kornukov
Nadezhda Samsonova
Margarita Zharova
Elena Volskaya
Mikhail Kokshenov
Vitaly Belyakov
Nikolai Fyodortsov
Nelli Snegina