92 minutes
10/19/1959
Czechoslovakia, May 9, 1945. The end of the war has already been announced. Nikolai Savelyev dreams of returning to his hometown and teaching children history again. Suddenly a battle begins - the SS unit is trying to break through to the west. The battery commander chickened out and fled. Savelyev takes command. He receives a serious injury that leads to blindness. He is accompanied to his hometown by nurse Svetlana. Nikolai does not immediately manage to find his place in life...
Valentin Zubkov
as Nikolay Savelyev
Liliya Aleshnikova
as Svetlana
Evgeni Burenkov
as Koren
Leonid Chubarov
Pyotr Dolzhanov
Viktor Koltsov
as School Director
Tatyana Konyukhova
as Tasya
Aleksandr Lebedev
Yelena Maksimova
as Pelageya Ivanovna
Nikita Mikhalkov
Olga Narovchatova
Lyusyena Ovchinnikova
as Katya
Vladimir Pitsek
Viktor Seleznyov
Nikolai Sergeyev
as Maksim Petrovich
Nikolai Smirnov
Vladimir Seleznyov