87 minutes
4/18/1966
Based on short stories by Vasiliy Shukshin. About the life and people of the modern Soviet village. Old Yermolai lived all his life in one village. He has four sons, each with their own problems. The youngest foolishly ended up in jail and, three months before his release, greatly missing his family, escaped.
Vsevolod Sanayev
as father
Anastasiya Filippova
as mother
Marta Grakhova
as Vera
Aleksey Vanin
as Ignatiy
Leonid Kuravlyov
as Stepan
Leonid Reutov
as Maksim
Viktor Shakhov
as Vasiliy
Nikolay Grabbe
as district militia officer
Aleksandra Dorokhina
as Ignatiy's wife
Svetlana Zhgun
as Nyura
Vadim Zakharchenko
as doctor in the clinic
Olesya Ivanova
as Klavdiya
Leonid Knyazev
as Klavdiya's husband
Svetlana Kharitonova
as pharmacist
Yakov Lents
as pharmacist (uncredited)
Klavdiya Kozlyonkova
as nurse in the clinic (uncredited)
Dmitriy Masanov
as Knyazev
Zoya Vasilkova
as pharmacist (uncredited)