The Shining Path (1940)
October 7, 1940
Comedy, Drama
1h 36m


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 & Crew
- Director
- Grigori Aleksandrov
- Tatyana Ivanovna "Tanya" Morozova Lyubov Orlova
- Aleksei Nikolaevich Lebedev Evgeniy Samoylov
- Mariya Sergeyevna Pronina Yelena Tyapkina
- Pyotr Ustinich Taldykin Vladimir Volodin
- Agrafena, the funny-looking weaver Anastasiya Zuyeva
- Klava Vera Altayskaya
- Nikolai Zubkov, factory foreman Nikolai Konovalov
- Kurnakov, chief foreman Pavel Olenev