Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Soviet film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who was born on the ancient lands of Chernihiv, along the banks the Desna. The film consists of two parts. The first is the world shown through the impressions of the six-year-old Sashko. The second is the recollections and reasoning of Sashko, now an elderly colonel who liberates his native village during the war.
Evgeniy Samoylov
Vova Goncharov
Yevhen Bondarenko
Zinaida Kirienko
Boris Andreyev
Ivan Pereverzev
Iya Marks
Grigori Zaslavets
Vladimir Gusev
Anatoli Yushko
Vyacheslav Voronin
Ivan Zhevago
Boris Yurchenko
Vladimir Perepelyuk
Mikhail Gladysh
Oleksandr Romanenko