

94 minutes
8/20/1969
A group of drunken young people severely beat the couple in love. Subsequently, Aleksandr Shchetinin died in the hospital after receiving injuries from beatings. The court, chaired by Judge Khromova, is to pronounce the death sentence on one of the four participants in the fight, who committed the fatal blow that led to death.

Yelena Kozelkova
as Khromova

Mariya Prizvan-Sokolova
as Smirnova

Yelena Dobronravova
as Vasin's mother

Natalya Gushchina
as Tamara

Aleksei Pankin
as Valeriy Kaptsov

Semyon Morozov
as Semyon Suprikov

Vladimir Nosik
as Vyacheslav Shkut

Igor Starygin
as Anatoliy Vasin

Aleksey Glazyrin
as prosecutor

Vladimir Anisko
as Kartashov

Evgeniy Evstigneev
as Spiridonov

Vsevolod Yakut
as Kovalyov

Nina Maslova
as Elya

Yevgeni Gerasimov
as Shchetinin

Yuri Gorobets
as Shchetinin's father

Anatoli Borisov
as Dubrovskiy
Ivan Lyubich
as lawyer

Valentina Berezutskaya
as Tamara's aunt

Vladimir Belokurov
as Ferapontov
Kirill Gun
as neighbor-witness

Liliya Zakharova
as Antonina
Sergey Podkolzin
as Shkut's brother
Sergei Priselkov
as Nefyodov

Boris Rudnev
as Kostya
Yelena Fetisenko
as court secretary

Dmitriy Orlovskiy
as Danilov (uncredited)
Yuri Malkovskiy
as expert (uncredited)

Mikhail Kislov
as guy in the courtroom (uncredited)