The events of the film unfold first on the territory of China, in Manchuria, then transferred to the USSR, have an extensive geographical area: from Harbin to Leningrad, and cover the period from 1928 to 1953. The plot is based on the complex, full of dramatic events, the fate of a man — Boris, the son of an employee of the Chinese-Eastern Railway.
Boris Eybozhenko
Lyudmila Erzhanova
Matryona Ivanovna, mat Borisa
Valentin Krakhmalnikov
Agrippina Koval, tetya Borisa
Georgiy Desnin
Marina, medsestra
Fyodor Erzhanov, otets Lyudmily
Medsestra
Zakhar Suzdalev
Nikolay Eybozhenko, otets Borisa
Professor Vedenskiy
Lidiya Vishnyakova
Valentina
Alla Vidova
Gleb Mikhaylov
Stalin
Artur Ivashko
Psikhiatr
Nachalnik stantsii
Isaak Grinberg
Poselenka
Volodya Eybozhenko