Maxim Perepelitsa is a cheerful, mischievous and resourceful young man from a Ukrainian village. He loves to make up stories and invent practical jokes. When he is drafted into the Russian Army, he doesn't stop his antics.
Leonid Bykov
Konstantin Sorokin
Aleksandr Borisov
Mykola Yakovchenko
Tatyana Pelttser
Georgiy Vitsin
Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
Boris Arakelov