The front-line friends during the heavy battle swore to each other that the one who would survive would continue the work of the deceased. Mikhail Nesterov remained alive and the main business of his life was the search for a deposit of valuable clay. These searches began his friend before the war, in remote taiga places. Yevdokiya Perevalova — the widow of a deceased friend decides to help Nesterov get to those deaf places...
Cast
Anatoliy Kuznetsov
Nesterov
Natalya Yegorova
Yevdokiya
Nikolai Rybnikov
Frolov
Tatyana Lavrova
Sima
Svetlana Kryuchkova
Lida
Tatyana Golodovich
Irishka
Elena Drapeko
Glasha
Nikolai Boyarsky
head of the geological laboratory
Vadim Medvedev
Ivan Gavrilovich
Viktor Bokov
balalaika player
Larisa Burkova
Agrafena
Lidiya Shtykan
administrator in the collective farmer's house
Nina Mamayeva
Lida's mother
Valery Kravchenko
collective farmer-driver
Viktoriya Smolenskaya
Klavdiya Suchkova
Viktor Chaynikov
Glasha's father
Olga Malozyomova
Glasha's mother
Alla Panova
curious soldier woman
Arina Rybnikova
female driver
Lyubov Malinovskaya
charioteer
Yekaterina Melentyeva
secretary
Mikhail Vasilyev
collective farmer
Stanislav Fesyunov
collective farmer (uncredited)
Igor Bogolyubov
Yegor (uncredited)
Vladimir Volchik
old tractor driver (uncredited)
Valeri Smolyakov
Silantyev (uncredited)
Crew
Vladimir Vengerov
Director
Feliks Mironer
Writer
Svetlana Ponomarenko
Script Editor
Georgi Markov
Novel
Stera Gorakova
Editor
Raisa Lisova
Assistant Editor
Rostislav Davydov
Director of Photography
N. Sedova
First Assistant Director
G. Ivanova
Assistant Director
Nikolay Kolomiets
Executive Producer
Viktor Volin
Production Design
Yuriy Smirnov
Production Design
S. Ivanov
Camera Operator
V. Kapustin
Camera Operator
V. Grigoryev
Assistant Camera
Vilya Rakhmatulina
Costume Design
M. Yerantseva
Makeup Artist
Eleonora Kazanskaya
Sound Director
Oksana Strugina
Sound Assistant
Isaac Schwarts
Original Music Composer
Viktor Bokov
Songs
Bulat Okudzhava
Lyricist
I. Zaytseva
Set Decoration
Yu. Kulikov
Set Decoration