97 minutes
1/23/1959
Ivan Brovkin finishes serving in the army with the rank of sergeant and, together with a group of comrades after demobilization, decides to go to the development of state farm. He arrives at his native collective farm and meets there a cool welcome: the chairman of the collective farm, the bride Lyubasha and mother — consider him a traitor. The planned wedding is canceled, and Brovkin leaves for the state farm. Brovkin comes to the state farm at the time of plowing the land. He joins the team. Winter passes after working days. In letters home he writes that everything is fine with him. News about how Ivan lives is spreading throughout the village. Lyubasha is seriously thinking about running away from home to the state farm...
Leonid Kharitonov
as Ivan Brovkin
Tatyana Pelttser
as Brovkin's mother
Sergei Blinnikov
as Koroteyev
Anna Kolomiytseva
as Koroteyev's wife
Daya Smirnova
as Lyubasha
Mikhail Pugovkin
as Zakhar Silych
Vera Orlova
as Polina
Konstantin Sinitsyn
as Barabanov
Tanat Zhailibekov
as Abayev
Sofya Zajkova
as Irina
Yevgeni Shutov
as Samokhvalov
Vasiliy Minin
as Bukhvalov
Juris Lejaskalns
as Yuris
Boris Tolmazov
as Nikolai Petrovich
Marina Gavrilko
as Akulina
Valentin Grachyov
as Nikolai
Klavdiya Kozlyonkova
as Akulina's daughter
Yevgeni Kudryashov
as Kostya
Vadim Novikov
as Petro
Antonina Kalinichenko
as Vera