76 minutes
8/30/1965
A poetic biography of a generation of young pre-war and wartime people, based on the works of Yuri Nagibin. Four inseparable friends — Sergei, Nina, Oska and Zhenya — spent all their school childhood on the Clean Ponds, in Moscow. But the school is over, and in their beloved gazebo they dream of the future, swear fidelity to each other and do not yet know that tomorrow war will break out and they will become participants in terrible events …
Aleksandr Zbruev
as Sergei Rakitin
Yevghenia Filonova
as Nina
Lyudmila Gladunko
as Zhenya Rumyantseva
Tamara Syomina
as Anna Samokhina
Svetlana Svetlichnaya
as Katya
Vladimir Yevstafyev
as Oska
Eduard Abalov
as officer
Nina Agapova
as Lyubov Kulchitskaya
Yelizaveta Auerbakh
as Katya's mother
Aleksandra Danilova
as Dusya
Valeriy Zalivin
as Tridesyatov's guest
Nikolai Kryukov
as Lev Matveyevich Rzhanov
Yuri Komarov
as Katya's fiance
Nina Menshikova
as Sergei's mother
Vyacheslav Nevinnyy
as sailor
Arkadi Trusov
as Yenyutin
Galina Frolova
as switchwoman
Viktor Khokhryakov
as Tridesyatov
Yuri Chekulayev
as doctor
Pavel Shpringfeld
as Nina's father
Zoya Vasilkova
as waitress (uncredited)
Irina Murzayeva
as switchwoman (uncredited)
Arseniy Barskiy
as host of the competition (uncredited)