The main characters are two graduates of a music school, gifted violinists. Andrei is ambitious, able-bodied, absorbed in the desire to achieve recognition. The other is Ladya Bragin, simple and reckless. On the day of the exam at the conservatory, he meets a girl who works as a clown, and immediately decides to stay in the circus. The creative successes of the heroes do not immediately and not simply take shape. Their will, their conviction of a calling, are severely tested. And yet both come to understand what happiness music can give and how much it demands from a musician...
Andrei Kosarev
Rita Pletnyova
Ladya Bragin
Sandi
Olya
Ganka
Kira Viktorovna
Grisha
professor Migdal
Olya's grandfather
Andrei's mother
Rita's father
granddad in the village
Rita's friend
himself (uncredited)
guest at a village wedding
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