Pyotr Bondarenko, an obstetrician-gynecologist
Vera Bondarenko, plastic surgeon
Viktor Bondarenko, painter
Dima Bondarenko, a college student
Marina Nikolaevna, director of the theater
Motya, freckled girl
Afanasiy Ivanovich
Zoya Nikolaevna, Valya's and Andrey's mother
Maria Ivanovna, nurse
Valya