Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.

• Mosfilm
• Tamara Syomina
• Yevgeny Matveyev
• Pavel Massalsky
• Aleksandr Khvylia
• Aleksei Smirnov
• Viktor Kulakov
• Vasili Bokarev
• Lev Zolotukhin