275 minutes
11/28/1979
The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil.
Nikita Mikhalkov
as Aleksei Ustyuzhanin
Vitali Solomin
as Nikolai Ustyuzhanin
Sergey Shakurov
as Spiridon Solomin
Natalya Andreychenko
as Anastasia Solomina
Lyudmila Gurchenko
as Older Taya Solomina
Vladimir Samoylov
as Afanasi Ustyuzhanin
Mikhail Kononov
as Rodion Klimentov
Nikolai Skorobogatov
as Yermolai
Pavel Kadochnikov
as Eternal Grandfather
Evgeniy Leonov-Gladyshev
as Alesha Ustyuzhanin
Yevgeni Perov
as Yerofei Solomin
Konstantin Grigorev
as Geolog Guryev
Dmitriy Buzylyov-Kretso
as Mitya
Ivan Dmitriev
as Blinov
Yelena Koreneva
as Younger Taya Solomina
Aleksandr Yanvaryov
as Vakhmistr
Pascal Aubier
Ruslan Mikaberidze
as Tofik Rustamov
Maksim Munzuk
as Fedyka
Igor Okhlupin
as Fillip Solomin
Leonid Pleshakov
Vladimir Simonov
as Afanasiy Ustyuzhanin
Vadim Vilskiy
as Yermolai
Nadezhda Butyrtseva
as Solomin's daughter
Larisa Negreeva
Alexander Adabashyan
as salesman
Aleksandr Yanvaryov
as quartermaster
Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy
as driller
Gennadiy Yukhtin
as Prokopiy
Anna Frolovtseva
Vsevolod Larionov
as Fyodor Nikolaevich
Konstantin Zabelin
Valentina Ananina
Aleksandr Potapov
as Pyotr
Sergey Polezhaev
as Chadrin
Valentina Berezutskaya
as Darya Solomina
Aleksandr Yakovlev
as military comissar
Irina Kupchenko
as Solomina
Artyom Mikhalkov
Georgiy Shtil
as Frol
Igor Teplov
Evgeniy Ilovayskiy
Viktor Gajnov
Natalya Nazarova
as snokha Solominykh
Vitaliy Leonov
Vladimir Lyubomudrov