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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| Directing | Gennadi Poloka | Director |
| Sound | Sergei Slonimsky | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Aleksandr Chechulin | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Dmitriy Dolinin | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Aleksandr Ivanovsky | Editor |
| Writing | Leonid Panteleyev | Book |
| Writing | Grigori Belykh | Book |
| Writing | Leonid Panteleyev | Screenplay |
| Art | Nikolai Suvorov | Production Design |
| Art | Yevgeni Gukov | Production Design |
| Directing | G. Tsorin | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Galina Gavrilova | Sound Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Yelena Amshinskaya | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Yevgeniya Boreyko | Makeup & Hair |
| Camera | N. Rodionov | Camera Operator |
| Writing | Mikhail Kurayev | Script Editor |
| Directing | I. Ivanov | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | V. Zhuravlyova | First Assistant Director |
| Camera | Vladimir Solovyov | Assistant Camera |
| Art | B. Dyshlenko | Assistant Production Design |
| Sound | Leo Korkhin | Conductor |
| Production | Иосиф Шурухт | Producer |