In a poor provincial town, the ragamuffin boys are frenziedly drilled for combat, and at nights the local elite, gathered in a pool room, boasts of fictitious biographies, while bands of boys amuse themselves with bloody fights on trashy vacant plots… One of the most vivid staples of the postwar childhood were pigeons. They could be bought, sold or stolen. One day a beautiful white dove appeared over the town. Risking his life, Ivan caught the White. And immediately became the target of the "pigeon" mafia…
Cast
Vyacheslav Ilyushchenko
Ivan
Liubomiras Laucevičius
Ivan's father
Sultan Banov
Unknown
Vladimir Steklov
Tzigan
Ilya Ivanov
Zhus
Andrei Bitov
Pepe
Boris Olekhnovich
Unknown
Aleksandr Bashirov
Chudik
Boris Ryakhovsky
Rakov
Anatoly Slivnikov
Colonel
Arkady Vysotsky
Unknown
Andrei Filozov
Unknown
Sergei Bodrov
Unknown
Leonid Filatov
(voice)
Ludmila Savelyeva
Unknown
Sergey Garmash
Unknown
Talgat Temenov
Unknown
Rashid Nugmanov
Unknown
Crew
Sergey Solovyov
Director, Writer
Boris Ryakhovsky
Novel
Vera Kruglova
Editor
Alla Abramova
Editor
Yury Klimenko
Director of Photography
Viktor Chemendryakov
Additional Director of Photography
S. Kopytin
Assistant Director
N. Grakina
Assistant Director
A. Blyumin
Assistant Director
Bulat Iskakov
Producer
Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov
Production Design
Vera Zelinskaya
Costume Design
Lyudmila Rauzhina
Makeup Artist
Lyudmila Dzheksembayeva
Makeup Artist
Valentin Bobrovsky
Sound Director
Isaac Schwarts
Music
Serik Aprimov
Assistant Director Trainee
Rashid Nugmanov
Assistant Director Trainee
Murad Aliev
Assistant Director Trainee
Amir Karakulov
Assistant Director Trainee
A. Karpylov
Assistant Director Trainee
Darezhan Omirbayev
Assistant Director Trainee
Ardak Amirkulov
Assistant Director Trainee
