A chronicle of life in a small village in the Baikal Region on the eve of World War I and at the time of the October Revolution. The age-old foundations are crumbling, the process of social stratification is underway and, as a result, some people go to defend the revolution, and others - to fight against it. The main hero is the young Cossack Roman Ulybin. At first, this carefree daredevil is preoccupied only with one problem: whether his sweetheart, Dashutka, is to marry him or a merchant’s son, Alyoshka. Roman is killing time fist-fighting with his rival. But little by little, the young man realizes that the world around him has changed, that people are fighting for equality and social justice, and, being a real Cossack, he can’t remain on the sidelines…
Vitali Solomin
Arkadi Trusov
Petr Shelokhonov
Vera Kuznetsova
Efim Kopelyan
Vasiliy Shukshin
Mikhail Kokshenov
Yuriy Solomin
Viktor Pavlov
Yakov Nayshuler
Sergey Dvoretskiy
Vladimir Losev
Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
Fyodor Odinokov
Lyubov Malinovskaya
Boris Arakelov
Dmitriy Masanov
Arkadiy Tigay