In 1920 Poltava, Ukraine, the first Soviet colony for street boys was created. This film tells the story of these rebellious kids and how the colony's director sought to rehabilitate them by allowing them to govern themselves.
Stepan Perets
Aleksei Maximovich "Maxim" Gorky
Grisha Burun
Sasha Zadorov
Chairman of Public Education
Anton Semyonovich Makarenko
Inspector Sharin
Yekaterina Grigoryevna
Kovrakh
Semyen Karabanov
Anton Semyenovich "Toska" Solovyev
Kalina Ivanovich
Ill boy