The Height

94 min.CountrySoviet UnionLanguageRussian

The Height (Russian: Высота, Translit.: Vysota) is a 1957 Soviet romantic 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 as Nikolay Pasechnik, foreman of fitters
• Inna Makarova as Katya Petrashen, welder
• Gennady Karnovich-Valois as Konstantin Maximovich Tokmakov, foreman from Zaporozhye
• Vasily Makarov as Igor Rodionovich Deryabin, Candidate of Science, Head of the Installation Department
• Marina Strizhenova as Masha, the wife of Deryabin
• Boris Sitko as Innokenty Panteleimonovich Dymov, Head of Construction
• Sergei Romodanov as father of Masha and Boris Berestov
• Yelena Maksimova as mother of Masha and Boris Berestovs
• Lev Borisov as Boris Berestov
• Leonid Chubarov [ru] as Vasya Khayenko, fitter

External links

• The Height at IMDb