The main characters are two graduates of a music school, gifted violinists. Andrei is ambitious, able-bodied, absorbed in the desire to achieve recognition. The other is Ladya Bragin, simple and reckless. On the day of the exam at the conservatory, he meets a girl who works as a clown, and immediately decides to stay in the circus. The creative successes of the heroes do not immediately and not simply take shape. Their will, their conviction of a calling, are severely tested. And yet both come to understand what happiness music can give and how much it demands from a musician...
Cast
Sergey Martynov
Andrei Kosarev
Yelena Solovey
Rita Pletnyova
Alexandre Arbat
Ladya Bragin
Yelena Shanina
Sandi
Svetlana Pereladova
Olya
Lyudmila Stoyanova
Ganka
Irina Skobtseva
Kira Viktorovna
Vladimir Valutskiy
Grisha
Gurgen Tonunts
professor Migdal
Nikolai Sergeyev
Olya's grandfather
Antonina Maksimova
Andrei's mother
Gennadi Yudin
Rita's father
Pyotr Lyubeshkin
granddad in the village
Aleksandr Stepanov
Rita's friend
Aleksandr Gradskiy
himself (uncredited)
Arkadi Tsinman
guest at a village wedding
Crew
Ekaterina Stashevskaya-Naroditckaya
Director
Vladimir Valutskiy
Writer
Mikhail Korshunov
Writer, Novel
Irma Tsekavaya
Editor
Nikolay Nemolyaev
Director of Photography
Lyudmila Kusakova
Production Design, Costume Design
Lyubov Maksimovich
Makeup Artist
Liya Benevolskaya
Sound
Vladimir Terletskiy
Original Music Composer