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.
Mikhail Gelovani
Aleksei Gribov
Maksim Shtraukh
Nikolai Bogolyubov
Sofiya Giatsintova
Boris Tenin
Boris Livanov
Sergei Blinnikov
Andrei Abrikosov
Vladimir Kenigson
Nikolai Plotnikov
Veriko Anjaparidze
Tamara Nosova
Ruben Simonov
Boris Andreyev
Viktor Stanitsyn
Vladimir Savelev
Marina Kovalyova
Marie Nováková
Jan Werich
Konstantin Bartashevich
Dmitriy Dubov
Mikhail Sidorkin
Vladimir Pokrovskiy
Miroslav Homola
Aleksandra Danilova
Aleksandr Khanov
Viktor Klyucharyov
Jaroslav Mareš
Leonid Pirogov
Georgi Millyar
Andrei Petrov
Nikolay Sibeikin
Oleg Frelikh
Vladimir Lyubimov
Fyodor Blazhevich
Vergiliy Renin
Maksim Shtraukh
Gavriil Belov
Nikolai Ryzhov
Georgi Tadishvili
Yevgeniya Melnikova