Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei finds himself in the company of the schoolmistress Natacha, his fiancée. Alexei joins the Red Army and soon becomes a sergeant. Fighting rages and German troops advance. Natacha is arrested and deported. But the tide turns decisively with the German defeat at Stalingrad. Now the major offensive against Hitler can begin.
Mikheil Gelovani
Maksim Shtraukh
Aleksei Gribov
Nikolai Ryzhov
Gavriil Belov
Ruben Simonov
G. Pasechnik
Vladimir Lyubimov
Sergei Blinnikov
Boris Livanov
Fyodor Blazhevich
Konstantin Bartashevich
Andrei Abrikosov
Boris Tenin
A. Poyarkov
Mikhail Sidorkin
Boris Andreyev
Marina Kovalyova
Yurii Tymoshenko
Sofiya Giatsintova
Nikolai Bogolyubov
Dmitri Pavlov
A. Urazaliev
Dmitriy Dubov
Giorgi Tatishvili
Oleg Frelikh
Viktor Stanitsyn
Vladimir Savelyev
Marie Nováková
Jan Werich
Nikolai Petrunkin
Vladimir Kenigson
Veriko Anjaparidze
Nikolai Plotnikov
Vladimir Pokrovskiy
Miroslav Homola
Vergiliy Renin
Karel Roden
Nikolai Aparin
Mikhail Kapustin
Bazyli Sikiewicz
V. Hartnik
Vladimir Lebedev
Yevgeniya Melnikova
Wolfgang Paulsen
Viktor Klyucharyov
Willi Narloch
Ya. Brandes
Ivan Solovyov
E. Cowan
Jaroslav Mareš
Tamara Nosova
Jaroslav Orlický
N. Zagrebelsky
Aleksandra Danilova
Lyudmila Krasheninnikova
Viktor Lebedev
Georgi Millyar
Grigory Mikhaylov
Pyotr Mukhin
Andrei Petrov
Leonid Pirogov
Aleksandr Khanov
Vladimir Prokhorov
Vsevolod Sanayev
Nikolay Sibeikin
Vladimir Tsoppi
Nikolai Shavykin