An Unquiet Spring (1956)

• 45%
• 1956
• Comedy
• Drama
• Aleksandr Medvedkin
• Sergei Gurzo
• Idris Nogajbayev
• Nina Grebeshkova

A comedy about Krushchev's 'Virgin Lands' project, to transform the barren and inhospitable spaces of the vast Soviet Union into fertile agricultural plains. A classically Socialist-Realist narrative of an individual's 're-education'. Zhenia, a hapless idler, arrives with a band of enthusiastic young Konsomol members to build a new town in the steppe. Although his dream, like that of all the young participants, is 'to become a tractor driver and a hero', he isn't prepared to work for the honour.