Awards : Prize for best cinematography (H. Marandzhian) –
Kiev FF, 1966
Plot synopsis
Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. He drowns his sorrows in drink, tormenting his wife Maria and teenager son Lyonka.
Maria decides to leave her husband. She goes with her son to Altai, but the boy runs away and returns to his father. Together they drag out a miserable existence till the moment when Griogory Shalagin, an old friend of Pleshcheyev, returns from the army. He awakes in Leonid’s heart the feeling of self dignity and the pride of a soldier.
Source : www.lenfilm.ru
