The Height

The Height (Russian: Высота) is a 1957 Soviet drama film produced at Mosfilm and directed by Aleksander Zarkhi after the novel of the same name written by Evgeny Vorobyov. It stars Nikolai Rybnikov and Inna Makarova.

Plot
A team of steel erectors has been redeployed to a steel mill construction site in a small town. The head of the squad, Nikolay Pasechnik, is a shockworker of Socialist Labour and reputed to be a darling of the women and a quick wit. Welder Katerina Petrashen', working on the construction site as well, is to be considered a pretty girl of easy virtue: she smokes (considered as an immoral act), is not a member of the Komsomol, likes party-coloured dresses and behaves provocatively.

After Nikolay and Katerina got to know each other, they develop a mutual interest. Intrigues of the building site manager, who goes on a business trip at the most crucial moment of blast-furnace tube rising and who shifted then the responsibility for the failure on to the engineer, cost Nikolay his health.

When the young ironworker is hospitalized after falling from a great height, Katya gives word to stop smoking and to start a new life.

Cast

 * Nikolai Rybnikov - Nikolay Pasechnik, foreman of fitters
 * Inna Makarova - Katya Petrashen, welder
 * Gennady Karnovich-Valois - Konstantin Maximovich Tokmakov, foreman from Zaporozhye
 * Vasily Makarov - Igor Rodionovich Deryabin, Candidate of Science, Head of the Installation Department
 * Marina Strizhenova - Masha, the wife of Deryabin
 * Boris Sitko - Innokenty Panteleimonovich Dymov, Head of Construction
 * Sergei Romodanov - father of Masha and Boris Berestov
 * Elena Maksimova - mother of Masha and Boris Berestovyh
 * Lev Borisov - Boris Berestov
 * Leonid Chubarov - Vasya Khayenko, fitter