The Height

The Height
Directed by	Aleksander Zarkhi
Written by	Mikhail Papava
Based on	The Height; by Yevgeni Vorobyov
Starring	Nikolai Rybnikov; Inna Makarova; Gennadi Karnovich-Valua; Vasili Makarov; Marina Strizhenova; Boris Sitko
Music by	Rodion Shchedrin
Cinematography	Vladimir Monakhov
Production; company	Mosfilm
Release date	1957
Running time	94 min.
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Height (Russian: Высота, Translit.: Vysota) is a 1957 Soviet drama film produced at Mosfilm and directed by Aleksander Zarkhi after the novel of the same name written by Evgeny Vorobyov. It stars Nikolai Rybnikov and Inna Makarova.

Plot

A team of steel erectors 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

Nikolai Rybnikov - Nikolay Pasechnik, foreman of fitters
Inna Makarova - Katya Petrashen, welder
Gennady Karnovich-Valois - Konstantin Maximovich Tokmakov, foreman from Zaporozhye
Vasily Makarov - Igor Rodionovich Deryabin, Candidate of Science, Head of the Installation Department
Marina Strizhenova - Masha, the wife of Deryabin
Boris Sitko - Innokenty Panteleimonovich Dymov, Head of Construction
Sergei Romodanov - father of Masha and Boris Berestov
Elena Maksimova - mother of Masha and Boris Berestovyh
Lev Borisov - Boris Berestov
Leonid Chubarov - Vasya Khayenko, fitter

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External links

The Height on IMDb

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