Vladimir Vengerov (Director) · Vera Panova (Writer)
Oleg Borisov
Leonid Pleshcheyev
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Mariya
Nikolai Simonov
Sotnikov
Tatyana Doronina
Polina
Viktor Avdyushko
Shalagin
Yelena Dobronravova
Frosya Mekhotneva
Lyubov Sokolova
Kapustina
Viktor Chekmaryov
Moshkin
Aleksandr Sokolov
Prokhorov
Stanislav Chekan
Akhromovich
Mariya Prizvan-Sokolova
Prokhorova
Boris Ryzhukhin
Makukhin
Aleksei Dogadayev
Lyonya Pleshcheyev
Stanislav Sokolov
Lyonya in youth
Viktor Tregubovich
policeman
Tamara Konovalova
Natasha
Boris Arakelov
Kostya
Valery Zimenkov
Pavel
Nadezhda Seraya
Pavel's sister
Galina Teplinskaya
Polina's friend
Valeriy Veselov
Alyosha
Sergey Golubev
passenger (uncredited)
Svetlana Mazovetskaya
woman in the reception area of the factory director (uncredited)
Oleg Khromenkov
militiaman (uncredited)
Zinaida Karpova
Moshkin's wife (uncredited)
Viktor Chaynikov
factory worker (uncredited)
Konstantin Malakhov
factory worker (uncredited)
Leonid Makaryev
workshop foreman (uncredited)
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Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. Against his will, he became a dependent. He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness, thereby tormenting his wife Mariya and his teenage son Lyonka. Mariya finally decides to take her son and leave for Altai, but the boy runs away and returns to his father. So, together, they eke out a half-miserable existence until Grigoriy Shalagin, Pleshcheyev's longtime friend, returns from the army. It is he who awakens in Leonid the extinct self-esteem and pride of a soldier. Pity aside, he helps him get back to work.
