It is May 1912. Thirteen political prisoners are being tried in a naval fortress of Kronstadt. They are sentenced to death by hanging. A clandestine Bolshevik organization decides to free the prisoners during their transfer to the place of execution. Vasily Panin, a junker of a school of naval engineers, is one of those entrusted with this dangerous task.
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Nikita Podgornyj
Leonid Kuravlyov
Ivan Pereverzev
Lev Polyakov
Nikolai Sergeyev
Oleg Golubitsky
Leonid Kmit
Vladimir Pokrovskiy
Yevgeni Teterin
Igor Nishchensky
Vladimir Seleznyov