''The Height'' (

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: Высота, Translit.: Vysota) is a

1957 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year ...

Soviet drama film produced at

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and directed by Aleksander Zarkhi after the novel of the same name written by Evgeny Vorobyov. It stars

Nikolai Rybnikov Nikolai Nikolayevich Rybnikov (russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Ры́бников; December 13, 1930 – October 22, 1990) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1981). Biography Early life and educat ...

and

Inna Makarova Inna Vladimirovna Makarova (russian: И́нна Влади́мировна Мака́рова; 28 July 1926 – 25 March 2020) was a Soviet and Russian actress. She grew up in Novosibirsk. In 1948 she graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Ci ...

Plot

A team of

steel erector An ironworker is a tradesman who works in the iron-working industry. Ironworkers assemble the structural framework in accordance with engineered drawings and install the metal support pieces for new buildings. They also repair and renovate o ...

s has been redeployed to a steel mill construction site in a small town. The head of the squad, Nikolay Pasechnik, is a shockworker of Socialist Labour and reputed to be a darling of the women and a quick wit. Welder Katerina Petrashen', working on the construction site as well, is to be considered a pretty girl of easy virtue: she smokes (considered as an immoral act), is not a member of the Komsomol, likes party-coloured dresses and behaves provocatively. After Nikolay and Katerina got to know each other, they develop a mutual interest. Intrigues of the building site manager, who goes on a business trip at the most crucial moment of blast-furnace tube rising and who shifted then the responsibility for the failure on to the engineer, cost Nikolay his health. When the young ironworker is hospitalized after falling from a great height, Katya gives word to stop smoking and to start a new life.

Cast

as Nikolay Pasechnik, foreman of fitters *

as Katya Petrashen, welder *Gennady Karnovich-Valois as Konstantin Maximovich Tokmakov, foreman from Zaporozhye *Vasily Makarov as Igor Rodionovich Deryabin, Candidate of Science, Head of the Installation Department *Marina Strizhenova as Masha, the wife of Deryabin *Boris Sitko as Innokenty Panteleimonovich Dymov, Head of Construction *Sergei Romodanov as father of Masha and Boris Berestov *

Yelena Maksimova Yelena Aleksandrovna Maksimova ( rus, Еле́на Алекса́ндровна Макси́мова; November 23, 1905 – September 23, 1986) was a Soviet film actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1958). Selected filmography * Women of Ry ...

as mother of Masha and Boris Berestovs *

Lev Borisov Lev Ivanovich Borisov (Russian: Лев Иванович Борисов; 8 December 1933, Plyos – 15 November 2011, Moscow) was a Russian actor. Brother of Oleg Borisov. He was a People's Artist of Russia.

as Boris Berestov * as Vasya Khayenko, fitter

External links

* 1957 films Russian drama films Films directed by Aleksandr Zarkhi Soviet drama films Mosfilm films 1957 drama films 1950s Russian-language films {{1950s-USSR-film-stub