In 1920 Poltava, Ukraine, the first Soviet colony for street boys was created. This film tells the story of these rebellious kids and how the colony's director sought to rehabilitate them by allowing them to govern themselves.
Anton Semyonovich Makarenko
Sasha Zadorov
Grisha Burun
Semyen Karabanov
Stepan Perets
Aleksei Maximovich "Maxim" Gorky
Yekaterina Grigoryevna
Anton Semyenovich "Toska" Solovyev
Chairman of Public Education
Kovrakh
