The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having been captured in January 1942 and being among the displaced persons, he didn't immediately decide to return to the USSR. Having rolled around the foreign country for 17 years, Aleksei nevertheless returned to his homeland. He goes to his brother in the south of the country to Sevastopol. Aleksei accidentally meets the doctor Anna Andreyevna, who was saved from death in besieged Leningrad. She travels by car from Moscow and also to the south, with her daughter Tanya; she suggests he join them. Aleksei tells about his life on the road.
Cast
Nikolay Eryomenko
Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov
Tamara Makarova
Anna Andreyevna
Zhanna Bolotova
Tanya
Vitali Doronin
Pyotr Ivanovich Pavlov
Natalya Medvedeva
Valentina Sergeyevna
Sergey Nikonenko
Yuri Pavlov
Olesya Ivanova
Varvara Andreyevna
Anastasiya Filippova
Stepanida Gavrilovna
Mikhail Gluzskiy
Klyachko
Vadim Zakharchenko
Savateyev
Tatyana Gavrilova
Mariya Nikolayevna
Sergei Gerasimov
Lvov-Shcherbatsky
Maria Rouvel
frau Wilde
Friedrich-Wilhelm Junge
Siegfried
Peter Reusse
Otto
Werner Toelcke
Caesar
Stanislav Borodokin
Vovka
Valeri Malyshev
Gennadiy
Ivan Kuznetsov
uncle Nikolai
Konstantin Bartashevich
Kuznetsov
Maya Bulgakova
Galina
Manefa Sobolevskaya
homeowner
Viktor Filippov
traffic police inspector
Stanislav Mikhin
traffic police inspector
Georgiy Sklyanskiy
truck driver
Georgi Shapovalov
drunk driver
Adolf Peter Hoffmann
herr Haslinger
Evelyn Cron
Brigitte
Lutz Köhlert
Wolfgang Walter
Ivan Malré
argentinean man
Hans Klering
official
Jürgen Frohriep
corporal (uncredited)
Erika Dunkelmann
frau Haslinger (uncredited)
Fredy Barten
cook (uncredited)
Karla Assmus
Annemarie (uncredited)
Renate Melon
Karin (uncredited)
Valentina Vladimirova
Varvara Andreyevna's guest (uncredited)
Vladimir Solovyov
division commissar (uncredited)
Natalya Zorina
Subbotin's guest (uncredited)
Crew
Sergei Gerasimov
Director, Writer
Tamara Makarova
Story
Lidiya Zhuchkova
Editor
Monika Behrendt
Assistant Editor
Vladimir Rapoport
Director of Photography
Vadim Kornilyev
Assistant Director of Photography
Paul Lehmann
Production Design
Boris Dulenkov
Production Design
Lev Rogozin
Camera Operator
Mariam Bykhovskaya
Costume Design
Joachim Dittrich
Costume Design
Aleksei Smirnov
Makeup Artist
Lothar Stäglich
Makeup Artist
Anatoliy Ivanov
Makeup Artist
Valentin Khlobynin
Sound
Werner Blaß
Sound
Konstantin Alekseyev
Special Effects
Pavel Chekalov
Original Music Composer
Aram Khachaturyan
Original Music Composer
Boris Kuzovkin
Assistant Production Design
Emin Khachaturyan
Conductor
