A coming-of-age story about a flute-playing boy (Yyvan Kyrla) from the Mari people, a national minority who lived near the Volga, and how he is educated by the Soviet state.
Кавырля Сырлаев/ Миша Эшпай
Карл Францевич Виатачек
Анук
Горох / Цыбуля
Head of the political education department
Grigoriy Nikolayevich Fastorskiy
Gryaznov
Ivan Nikitich Lebedev