A painter lives with his wife and four children in a studio. Due to creative frustrations and the irritation of admirers and hangers-on he becomes increasingly reclusive, finally sealing himself away in the attic. Based on an Albert Camus story.

• Mosfilm
• Natalya Arinbasarova
• Boris Plotnikov
• Zoya Kaydanovskaya
• Mikhail Filippov
• Vytautas Paukste
• Galina Petrova
• Pyotr Olev
• Boris Shuvalov