A coming-of-age story about a flute-playing boy (Yyvan Kyrla) from the Mari people, a national minority who lived near the Volga, and how he is educated by the Soviet state.
Mikhail Viktorov
Vladimir Gardin
Yanina Zheymo
Boris Tenin
Boris Chirkov
Fyodor Nikitin
I. Moskvin
Evgeniy Velikhov
Leonid Kmit
Nikolai Michurin
Konstantin Nazarenko
Aleksandr Melnikov
Nikolai Valyano
Viktor Portnov