89 minutes
7/18/1975
The main characters are two graduates of a music school, gifted violinists. Andrei is ambitious, able-bodied, absorbed in the desire to achieve recognition. The other is Ladya Bragin, simple and reckless. On the day of the exam at the conservatory, he meets a girl who works as a clown, and immediately decides to stay in the circus. The creative successes of the heroes do not immediately and not simply take shape. Their will, their conviction of a calling, are severely tested. And yet both come to understand what happiness music can give and how much it demands from a musician...
Sergey Martynov
as Andrei Kosarev
Yelena Solovey
as Rita Pletnyova
Alexandre Arbatt
as Ladya Bragin
Yelena Shanina
as Sandi
Svetlana Pereladova
as Olya
Lyudmila Stoyanova
as Ganka
Irina Skobtseva
as Kira Viktorovna
Vladimir Valutskiy
as Grisha
Gurgen Tonunts
as professor Migdal
Nikolai Sergeyev
as Olya's grandfather
Antonina Maksimova
as Andrei's mother
Gennadi Yudin
as Rita's father
Pyotr Lyubeshkin
as granddad in the village
Aleksandr Stepanov
as Rita's friend
Aleksandr Gradskiy
as himself (uncredited)
Arkadi Tsinman
as guest at a village wedding