The Height

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The Height (Russian: Высота, Translit.: Vysota) is a 1957 Soviet drama film produced at Mosfilm and directed by Aleksander Zarkhi after the same name novel written by Evgeny Vorobyov.

It stars Nikolay Rybnikov and Inna Makarova.

Synopsis

Team of steel erectors has been redeployed to the new construction activity in a small town where the steel mill was being built. The head of the squad Nicholay Pasechnik, albeit shockworker of Socialist Labour, is, however, reputed to be a darling of the women and humorist. The welder Katerina Petrashen', working on the construction site as well, is to be considered by a great many of people as a pretty girl of easy virtue: she smokes (at the time, it was the height of immorality!), not a member of the Komsomol, likes party-coloured dresses and behaves provocatively.

After Nikolay and Katerina got to know each other, a mutual interest between them has developed. Intrigues of the building site manager, who went 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 crashed after falling from a great height and checked into a hospital, Katya gives word to stop smoking and to start a new life ...

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