The film recreates episodes from the December Uprising of 1825. Against the backdrop of the uprising, a love story unfolds between the Decembrist Annenkov and Polina Gebl.
Cast
Vladimir Maksimov
Aleksandr I
Yevgeni Boronikhin
Nikolay I
Varvara Annenkova
Polina Gjebl
Borys Tamarin
Ivan Annenkov
Gennadi Michurin
Prince Trubetskoy
Sergei Shishko
Ryleev
Eduard Ioganson
Unknown
Valentin Lebedev
Prince Obolenskiy
Ivan Khudoleyev
Yakobi, Annenkov's relative
Pyotr Andriyevsky
Tsarevich Konstantin
Pyotr Podvalniy
Aleksandr Bestuzhev
Aleksandra Gribunina
Annenkova
Konstantin Karenin
Pestel
P. Volkonskiy
Kakhovskiy
Tamara Godlevskaya
Princess Trubetskaya
Olga Spirova
Natalya Ryleyeva
Vladimir Kriger
Annenkov's estate bailiff
Sergey Glagolin
Nikolka, lackey
Aleksandr Larikov
Yakubovich
Viktor Plotnikov
Commander of Preobrazhenskiy regiment
Boris Medvedev
Stremoukhov
Nina Mlodzinskaya
Teleshova, ballerina
Veronika Buzhinskaya
Unknown
Petr Kuznetsov
Unknown
Shura Konstantinov
Unknown
Aleksandr Lyubosh
Simakov
Zoya Valevskaya
Tsarevich Konstantin's wife (uncredited)
Konstantin Gibshman
Gambler from Penza (uncredited)
Nikolay Gorodnichev
Annenkova's lackey
Nikolay Dmitriev
Peasant (uncredited)
Aleksandr Panteleyev
Servant (uncredited)
Yevgeniya Rogulina
(uncredited)
Iona Talanov
(uncredited)