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Son is a 1955 Soviet drama film directed by Yuri Ozerov.

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Son (Russian: Сын, romanized: Syn) is a 1955 Soviet drama film directed by Yuri Ozerov.

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Plot

Senior pupil Andrei Goryaev is facing criminal liability for criminal misconduct. A compassionate witness regrets a young man, and he is released. Having quarreled with his father, Goriaev leaves the house and wanders around the capital until he accidentally finds himself in a new district of Moscow: at the construction site in Cheryomushki.

Cast

Leonid Kharitonov as Andrey Goryaev

Pyotr Konstantinov as Goryaev's father

Varvara Kargashova as Goryaev's mother

Viktor Geraskin as Vasya Kozlov

Nadezhda Rumyantseva as Tamara

Konstantin Sorokin as Panechkin

Alexey Gribov as Kondratiev

Vladimir Belokurov as Lavrov

Roza Makagonova as Shura

Aleksandr Mikhaylov as Volodya

Klyon Protasov as policeman

Pavel Vinnik as Shibykin

Ada Vojtsik as Vasya's mother

Nina Doroshina as saleswoman

Vladimir Zemlyanikin as Starostin

Yuri Belov as escort policeman

Konstantin Bartashevich as school director

Release

Yuri Ozerov's film in the Soviet box office was watched by 28.3 million viewers, which is the 450th result for the whole history of the hire in the USSR.

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“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”
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