
The first postwar years. The Director of a small breeding station Avdotya Pavlovna is not immediately convinced of the anti-science of the official Lysenkov direction in biology. But making sure leaving the farm as an ordinary agriculturist, where he works on breeding new wheat varieties on the basis of the persecuted Lysenkova chromosome theory of heredity.
Cast

Zinaida Dekhtyaryova
Avdotya Beloborodova

Valentina Vladimirova
School principal's wife

Izolda Izvitskaya
Nyura

Ivan Dmitriev
Shamray

Mykola Hrynko
school director

Zinoviy Gerdt
Gorbis
Semyon Likhogodenko
Сollective farm chairman

Eduard Bredun
Pasha
Galina Butovskaya
Unknown
Galina Goryacheva
Unknown
V. Kalenkov
Unknown
Aleksandr Milyukov
Unknown
Andrey Vilinskiy-Bogolyubov
Unknown
A. Gryzan
Unknown

Leonid Zhukovskiy
Unknown

Marko Tereshchenko
Unknown
Crew

Oleksandr Muratov
Director, Writer
Igor Muratov
Writer
V. Reshetnikov
Script Editor
Olga Kharkova
Editor
Vladimir Snezhko
Director of Photography
Serafima Beniova
Executive Producer

Yuri Bogatyrenko
Production Design
Z. Lagutina
Costume Design
Zoya Gubina
Key Makeup Artist
Viktoriya Kurnosenko
Key Makeup Artist

Valeri Isakov
Second Unit Director
V. Senatkin
Second Unit Director
Vladimir Kurgansky
Sound Recordist

Oleg Karavaichuk
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Yevheniya Liodt
Set Designer