It Began This Way...
Dec 25, 1956 · 1h 38m
Director
Lev Kulidzhanov, Yakov SegelOverview
A Moscow group of Komsomol members arrives on the virgin lands, in the Kazakh steppes, and immediately faces bureaucracy and carelessness. Someone flees the state farm for more reliable earnings, and someone simply does not want to work. But a new energetic director appears — and real life begins...
Cast of It Began This Way...
Vladimir YemelyanovGrishanin
Valentin ZubkovSkvortsov
Liliya AleshnikovaTanya Gromova
Nikolai DovzhenkoLyosha Antonov
Natalya PavlovaZhenya Grishanina
Vladimir Ratomskypolice chief
Rolan BykovLapshin- Boris LifanovBurkach
- Olga KorotkevichBurkach's wife
- Vladimir Lebedevforwarder
Nikolay SmorchkovGennadiy
Boris Batashevagronomist
Olga ArosevaRaya- Yuri ArkhiptsevSasha
Valerian KalininZavyalov
Pavel VolkovLyosha's father
Aleksandr Timontayevtaxi driver
Nikolai Parfyonovpoliceman- Boris LavrovRegistry office employee
- Vasiliy GalaktionovBrigadier
Aleksei Egorov(uncredited)
Crew of It Began This Way...
Lev KulidzhanovWriter, Director
Yakov SegelWriter, Director- Solomon GarbuzovWriter
- Nikolay PetrovExecutive Producer
Aleksandr LokshinOriginal Music Composer
Vyacheslav ShumskiyDirector of Photography
Igor BakhmetyevProduction Design- Yekaterina AleksandrovaCostume Design
- Valentin KhlobyninSound Director
- Pavel GrushkoLyricist
- V. OsminkinaVFX Director of Photography
- Vladimir NikitchenkoVFX Artist
- Arvīds JansonsConductor
About It Began This Way...
What is It Began This Way... about?
A Moscow group of Komsomol members arrives on the virgin lands, in the Kazakh steppes, and immediately faces bureaucracy and carelessness. Someone flees the state farm for more reliable earnings, and someone simply does not want to work. But a new energetic director appears — and real life begins...
When was It Began This Way... released?
It Began This Way... was released on December 25, 1956.
How long is It Began This Way...?
It Began This Way... runs 1 hour 38 minutes (98 minutes).
Who directed It Began This Way...?
It Began This Way... was directed by Lev Kulidzhanov and Yakov Segel.
Who is in the cast of It Began This Way...?
The cast of It Began This Way... includes Vladimir Yemelyanov (Grishanin), Valentin Zubkov (Skvortsov), Liliya Aleshnikova (Tanya Gromova), Nikolai Dovzhenko (Lyosha Antonov) and Natalya Pavlova (Zhenya Grishanina).