A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man. This Soviet war feature was considerably outspoken for the time as it addressed issues such as anti-Stalinism, Siberia and the inhumanity of war. Adapting his screenplay from a book by Constantin Simonov, Alexandre Stolper was responsible for writing as well as directing.
Kirill Lavrov
Anatoliy Papanov
Aleksey Glazyrin
Oleg Efremov
Lev Lyubetsky
Vladlen Paulus
Lyudmila Krylova
Zinovi Vysokovsky
Boris Chirkov
Evgeniy Samoylov
Oleg Tabakov
Lev Kruglyy
Mikhail Ulyanov
Yevgeni Shutov
Yuriy Dubrovin
Vladimir Muravyov
Raisa Kurkina
Sofya Pavlova
Valentina Telegina
Mikhail Gluzskiy
Boris Ardov
Людмила Любимова
Vasiliy Makarov
Roman Khomyatov
Igor Pushkaryov
Viktor Avdyushko
Vladimir Gorelov
Vladimir Kulik
Yuri Volkov
Nikolai Sergeyev
Vladimir Marenkov
Vladimir Shibankov
Boris Yurchenko
Mikhail Vorobyov
Arina Aleynikova
Boris Bityukov
Vladimir Vysotsky