101 minutes
4/3/1961
On the outskirts of the provincial town, Yevdokim and Yevdokiya live, raising foster children. Yevdokim works at a factory, Yevdokiya is a housewife. The family seems to be safe and happy: the only trouble is that Yevdokiya cannot forget the love of her youth. This Yevdokim cannot stand and offers Yevdokiya freedom, while he will remain with the children. But all these contradictions are drowned in mutual love for children and for each other.
Lyudmila Khityaeva
as Yevdokiya
Nikolai Lebedev
as Yevdokim
Lyubov Basova
as Natasha in a childhood
Olga Narovchatova
as Natasha in a youth
Alevtina Rumyantseva
as Natasha
Yuri Akhmadulin
as Andrei in a childhood
Yevgeni Anufriyev
as Andrei
Aleksandr Barsov
as Pavel in a childhood
Vladimir Ivashov
as Pavel
Yelena Pavlenko
as Katya in a childhood
Natalya Zashchipina
as Katya
Mikhail Dyakov
as Sashenka in a childhood
Aleksandr Galchenkov
as Sashenka
Pyotr Konstantinov
as Avdeyev
Vera Altayskaya
as Anna Shkapidar
Valentin Zubkov
as Porokhin
Ivan Ryzhov
as Shestyorkin
Yelena Maksimova
as Maryushka
Mariya Lvova
as Nastya
Ayrat Arslanov
as Akhmet
Anatoliy Dudorov
as judge
Pyotr Savin
as host of the meeting
Leonid Davydov-Suboch
as Kolesov
Georgi Shapovalov
as Timofeyev
Klavdiya Khabarova
as Sofya
Kseniya Kozmina
as Shestyorkina
Valentina Belyaeva
as Yevdokiya's friend
Viktor Kolpakov
as photographer (uncredited)
Inna Fyodorova
as delegate from the women's Department (uncredited)
Stanislav Mikhin
as komsomol organizer of the plant (uncredited)
Grigory Mikhaylov
as awarding person (uncredited)
Anastasiya Filippova
as duty watchwoman at the factory (uncredited)
Lidiya Korolyova
as hotel receptionist (uncredited)
Ekaterina Obraztsova
as Yevdokiya's granddaughter