

182 minutes
9/15/1977
A touching story about a white Gordon Setter with black ear, who became homeless because of his master's illness. His master, Ivan Ivanovich, a man far from being young, fond of hunting and nature, took a puppy to live with him, despite the dog's black ear being a "shame of nature" to his breed. The man always took his dog, whom he called Bim or Bimka, to hunting in country. Later, however Ivan Ivanovich began to have problems with heart and when the disease became worse was taken to a hospital. His dog couldn't bear waiting for the only person that ever cared for him and set out to find his master. Thus began the story of a homeless dog and his many breathtaking and exciting adventures, encounters of many people, kind and evil, and leads to an unexpected and heart-rending end.

Vyacheslav Tikhonov
as Ivan Ivanovich

Valentina Vladimirova
as slander woman

Mikhail Dadyko
as Seryy

Ivan Ryzhov
as Pal Titych

Irina Shevchuk
as Dasha

Mikhail Zimin
as Semyon Petrovich

Gennadiy Kochkozharov
as Alyosha's Father

Rimma Manukovskaya
as Tolik's Mother

Mariya Skvortsova
as Stepanovna

Anatoliy Barantsev
as Nikolay Yegorovich

Vitaliy Leonov
as the fishman

Lyubov Sokolova
as the switchman

Alexei Chernov
as Trofimych

Dmitriy Barkov
as Aleksandr Petrovich

Raisa Ryazanova
as Alyosha's Mother

Georgi Svetlani
as medical assistant
Vladimir Sergienko
as Klim
Vasiliy Vorobyov
as Tolik
Anna Rybnikova
as Lyusya
Sergey Shevlyakov
as Alesha

Ivan Zhevago
as prokhozhiy v shlyape

Bronislava Zakharova
as medsestra

Zoya Tolbuzina
as zhena Serogo

Fedor Korchagin
as prodavets shchenkov

Nikolay Pogodin
as bus driver

Svetlana Kharitonova
as Anna Pavlovna
Fyodor Yekaterinitsev

Galina Komarova
as Anisya

Andrey Martynov
as Andrey Leonidovich

Aleksei Mironov
as Anisya's Husband

Tatyana Nikitina

Vladimir Razumovskiy
as Kostya

Aleksandr Pashutin
as judge at the dog show (uncredited)

Boris Gitin
as taxi driver (uncredited)

Vyacheslav Tsyupa