A poetic biography of a generation of young pre-war and wartime people, based on the works of Yuri Nagibin. Four inseparable friends — Sergei, Nina, Oska and Zhenya — spent all their school childhood on the Clean Ponds, in Moscow. But the school is over, and in their beloved gazebo they dream of the future, swear fidelity to each other and do not yet know that tomorrow war will break out and they will become participants in terrible events …
Cast
Aleksandr Zbruev
Sergei Rakitin
Yevghenia Filonova
Nina
Lyudmila Gladunko
Zhenya Rumyantseva
Tamara Syomina
Anna Samokhina
Svetlana Svetlichnaya
Katya
Vladimir Yevstafyev
Oska
Eduard Abalov
officer
Nina Agapova
Lyubov Kulchitskaya
Yelizaveta Auerbakh
Katya's mother
Aleksandra Danilova
Dusya
Valeriy Zalivin
Tridesyatov's guest
Nikolai Kryukov
Lev Matveyevich Rzhanov
Yuri Komarov
Katya's fiance
Nina Menshikova
Sergei's mother
Vyacheslav Nevinnyy
sailor
Arkadi Trusov
Yenyutin
Galina Frolova
switchwoman
Viktor Khokhryakov
Tridesyatov
Yuri Chekulayev
doctor
Pavel Shpringfeld
Nina's father
Zoya Vasilkova
waitress (uncredited)
Irina Murzayeva
switchwoman (uncredited)
Arseniy Barskiy
host of the competition (uncredited)
Crew
Aleksey Sakharov
Director
Bella Akhmadulina
Writer
Lyudmila Tsitsina
Script Editor
Yuriy Nagibin
Novel
Antonina Zimina
Editor
Leonid Kalashnikov
Director of Photography
Levon Kotcharian
First Assistant Director
Dmitriy Zalbshteyn
Executive Producer
Ivan Plastinkin
Production Design
T. Grishin
Camera Operator
German Shimkovich
Visual Effects Camera
Maya Filippova
Costume Design
B. Yegorov
Makeup & Hair
Evgeniy Fyodorov
Sound Director
Sergey Mukhin
VFX Artist
Yuriy Levitin
Original Music Composer
Gaziz Dugashev
Conductor
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