The film is set in the 1920s. Shura Sevastyanov is an aspiring journalist in a small newspaper, with two-classes of a parochial school behind him. In the spirit of building communism, he is an ardent fighter against philistinism in all its forms. He denies the phenomenon of love, believing that it does not exist and that there is only friendship and sexual desire of man to woman.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
 Elena ProklovaZoya the big | Zoya the big |
 Yelena KorenevaZoya the little | Zoya the little |
 Nikolai DenisovShura Sevastyanov | Shura Sevastyanov |
 Stanislav LyubshinKushlya | Kushlya |
 Sergey MigitskoSyomka Gorodnitskiy | Syomka Gorodnitskiy |
 Lyudmila GurchenkoMariya Petrichenko | Mariya Petrichenko |
 Lyudmila DmitrievaKsanya | Ksanya |
 Natalya NazarovaLiza | Liza |
 Valentina TitovaMarianna | Marianna |
 Vladimir BasovGorodnitskiy's father | Gorodnitskiy's father |
 Ivan BortnikKucheryavyy | Kucheryavyy |
 Mikhail BoyarskiyAkopyan | Akopyan |
 Nikolai Valyanocafe director | cafe director |
 Boris GalkinStepan | Stepan |
 Nikolai KarachentsovZoya the big's brother | Zoya the big's brother |
 Oleg YankovskiyIlya Gorodnitskiy | Ilya Gorodnitskiy |
 Tamara AbrosimovaZoya the little's mother | Zoya the little's mother |
| YYuri VyushinKolya Igumnov | Kolya Igumnov |
| YYuri GoncharovTolya Shchipakin | Tolya Shchipakin |
| VVladimir MarkovZoya the little's father | Zoya the little's father |
| ZZ. VelikovaNot listed | Not listed |
 Vladimir Sidorovepisode | episode |