Nurdin is a man who failed to protect friendship and love, who retreated before deceit and hypocrisy. The benevolent viewer is personified by the Old Man, a character who seems to stand outside the plot. Nurdin tells the Old Man about his life.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
 Efim KopelyanNot listed | Not listed |
 Emma PopovaNot listed | Not listed |
 Sergei YurskyNot listed | Not listed |
 Mikhail VolkovNot listed | Not listed |
 Alina NemchenkoNot listed | Not listed |
 Boris RyzhukhinNot listed | Not listed |
 Georgiy ShtilNot listed | Not listed |
 Valentina RomanovaNot listed | Not listed |
 Mikhail IvanovNot listed | Not listed |
 Vsevolod KuznetsovNot listed | Not listed |
| TT. BaskoNot listed | Not listed |
| IInessa KirillovaNot listed | Not listed |
 Boris LyoskinNot listed | Not listed |
| MMarina AdashevskayaNot listed | Not listed |
 Ivan KraskoNot listed | Not listed |
 Anatoli AbramovNot listed | Not listed |
| IIrina EfremovaNot listed | Not listed |
 Izil ZabludovskiyNot listed | Not listed |
 Rostislav KatanskyNot listed | Not listed |
 Anatoliy GarichevNot listed | Not listed |
| VViktor ChaynikovNot listed | Not listed |