The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil.
Nikita Mikhalkov
Vitali Solomin
Sergey Shakurov
Natalya Andreychenko
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Vladimir Samoylov
Mikhail Kononov
Nikolai Skorobogatov
Pavel Kadochnikov
Evgeniy Leonov-Gladyshev
Yevgeni Perov
Konstantin Grigorev
Dmitriy Buzylyov-Kretso
Ivan Dmitriev
Yelena Koreneva
Aleksandr Yanvaryov
Pascal Aubier
Ruslan Mikaberidze
Maksim Munzuk
Igor Okhlupin
Leonid Pleshakov
Vladimir Simonov
Vadim Vilskiy
Nadezhda Butyrtseva
Larisa Negreeva
Aleksandr Adabashyan
Aleksandr Yanvaryov
Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy
Gennadiy Yukhtin
Anna Frolovtseva
Vsevolod Larionov
Konstantin Zabelin
Valentina Ananina
Aleksandr Potapov
Sergey Polezhaev
Valentina Berezutskaya
Aleksandr Yakovlev
Irina Kupchenko
Artyom Mikhalkov
Georgiy Shtil
Igor Teplov
Evgeniy Ilovayskiy
Viktor Gajnov
Natalya Nazarova
Vitaliy Leonov