75 minutes
3/20/1961
In the wealthy noble family of Popelsky, the only son Petrik is blind from birth. His mother Anna Mikhailovna, infinitely loving and pitying the boy, educates him as a rare fragile flower. And only Uncle Maxim, who fought under the banner of Garibaldi in his youth, is trying to accustom the boy to independence. The boy begins to recognize the world by touch, and one day his fingers find the keys of a piano. But, still not knowing the price of his talent, he leaves with the tramps "to seek the truth." And now only love can reconcile him with the world of the sighted.
Boris Livanov
as Maxim Yatsenko
Vasiliy Livanov
as Pyotr
Marianna Strizhenova
as Anna Mikhailovna
Larisa Kurdyumova
as Evelina
Yuri Puzyryov
as Joachim
Aleksei Gribov
as Fyodor Kandyba
Sergei Blinnikov
as Stavruchenko
Viktor Murganov
as Ilya
Vadim Grachov
as Andrei
Nikita Kondratyev
as Kuzma
Nikolay Kozinin
as bell ringer
Aleksandr Smirnov
as Popelsky
Sergei Shestopalov
as Pyotr in childhood
Marina Kurakova
as Evelina - devochka