Sasha Enters Life

Sasha Enters Life (Саша входит в жизнь) is a 1957 remake of the 1956 film Tight Knot, a Soviet drama film directed by Mikhail Schweitzer. In 1988 the original film was restored under the original name, Tight Knot.

Plot
The chairman of the collective farm takes Sasha Komelev, the son of the dead secretary of the district committee, to his house. Sasha not only began to work hard, but also went to college. He spends his free time with a girl named Katya, but she preferred the new secretary of the district party committee. The latter turns out to be a careerist who does not care about collective farms of the district, but Katya does not believe this.

Cast

 * Oleg Tabakov as Sasha Komelev
 * Viktor Avdyushko as Pavel Mansurov
 * Nikolai Sergeyev as Ignat Gmyzin
 * Ivan Pereverzev as Party Leader
 * Vladimir Yemelyanov as Party Leader
 * Pavel Volkov as Murgin, collective farm chairman
 * Valentina Pugachyova as Katya Zelentsova
 * Valentina Berezutskaya as Nastya Baklushina
 * Antonina Bogdanova as wife Gmyzina
 * Yuriy Medvedev as Meshkov
 * Svetlana Konovalova as Anna Mansurova
 * Yelena Maksimova as Sasha's mother
 * Maya Bulgakova
 * Oleg Yefremov
 * Valentina Vladimirova as Pozdnyakova

Reviews

 * Andrei Plakhov: Another landmark work on the ideological shelf should be considered the Tight Knot by Mikhail Schweitzer, where the criticism of the collective-farm order was clearly too acute for the Khrushchev Thaw to begin with. The film was savagely rewired and released under the idiotic title Sasha Enters Life, which forever discouraged Schweitzer from making a keen social film, and he devoted himself to screen versions of the classics.
 * Maya Turovskaya: Tabakov with a good and authentic artlessness conveyed the first desperate grief and uncontrollable immediate joy of his seventeen years, his infantile maturity, touching disturbances of the first failed love and breaking boyish principles, all watercolor and tender play of a barely feminine, shy and direct character. But the actor in it has not yet groped his theme.