

82 minutes
3/1/1980
The front-line friends during the heavy battle swore to each other that the one who would survive would continue the work of the deceased. Mikhail Nesterov remained alive and the main business of his life was the search for a deposit of valuable clay. These searches began his friend before the war, in remote taiga places. Yevdokiya Perevalova — the widow of a deceased friend decides to help Nesterov get to those deaf places...

Anatoliy Kuznetsov
as Nesterov

Natalya Yegorova
as Yevdokiya

Nikolai Rybnikov
as Frolov

Tatyana Lavrova
as Sima

Svetlana Kryuchkova
as Lida
Tatyana Golodovich
as Irishka

Elena Drapeko
as Glasha

Nikolai Boyarsky
as head of the geological laboratory

Vadim Medvedev
as Ivan Gavrilovich
Viktor Bokov
as balalaika player

Larisa Burkova
as Agrafena

Lidiya Shtykan
as administrator in the collective farmer's house

Nina Mamayeva
as Lida's mother

Valery Kravchenko
as collective farmer-driver

Viktoriya Smolenskaya
as Klavdiya Suchkova
Viktor Chaynikov
as Glasha's father
Olga Malozyomova
as Glasha's mother
Alla Panova
as curious soldier woman
Arina Rybnikova
as female driver

Lyubov Malinovskaya
as charioteer

Yekaterina Melentyeva
as secretary

Mikhail Vasilyev
as collective farmer
Stanislav Fesyunov
as collective farmer (uncredited)

Igor Bogolyubov
as Yegor (uncredited)

Vladimir Volchik
as old tractor driver (uncredited)
Valeri Smolyakov
as Silantyev (uncredited)