
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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