The Shining Path (1940)

Director: Grigori Aleksandrov

Tanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her education and the Stakhanovite movement. She becomes a shock labourer and ascends through the Party ranks, ultimately being elected as a member of the Supreme Soviet.

Cast

Lyubov Orlova

Tatyana Ivanovna "Tanya" Morozova

Evgeniy Samoylov

Aleksei Nikolaevich Lebedev

Yelena Tyapkina

Mariya Sergeyevna Pronina

Vladimir Volodin

Pyotr Ustinich Taldykin

Anastasiya Zuyeva

Agrafena, the funny-looking weaver

Vera Altayskaya

Klava

Nikolai Konovalov

Nikolai Zubkov, factory foreman

Pavel Olenev

Kurnakov, chief foreman

Osip Abdulov

Dorokhov, factory director

Rina Zelyonaya

Blond Secretary