The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St. Petersburg, Russia. Streets of the city are full of the homeless boys. They are caught to be raised and educated at the correction school named after Dostoevsky. The boys are street smart and difficult. But the faculty stands up to the challenge. The teaches are being devoted and caring, and gradually win the respect of the most difficult kids. The school director Vicknixor is a refined intellectual, who becomes a role model for the boys.
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Sergei Yursky as Vicknixor
Yuliya Burygina as Elanlyum
Pavel Luspekayev as Kostalmed
Aleksandr Melnikov as Alnikpop
Anatoli Stolbov as Palvan
Georgy Kolosov as Meftakhutdyn
Vera Titova as Marta
Violetta Zhukhimovich as Tonya Markoni
Lev Vajnshtejn as Yankel
Viktor Perevalov as Goga
Anatoliy Podshivalov as Tsygan
Yuri Rychkov as Kupa Kupych Genialniy
Aleksandr Tovstonogov as Dzhaparidze (Dze)
Vyacheslav Golubkov as Yaponets (Ionin)
Artur Isayev as Panteleyev
Aleksandr Kavalerov as Kostya Fedotov
Vladimir Maksimov as School Principal
Vladimir Vasilyev as School Principal
Mikhail Vasilyev as Yazykov
Lyudmila Volynskaya as Amvon
Anna Yesipovich as Vicknixor's Mother
Liliya Gurova as Head of Reception Centre
Galina Teplinskaya as Panteleyev's Mother
Nikolay Kuzmin as Makarov
Boris Lyoskin as Policeman
German Lupekin as Teacher
Tamara Kolesnikova as Nurse (uncredited)
Nikolai Godovikov as Street Urchin (uncredited)
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