About the fate of a communist, who has come a long and difficult life from a simple worker to the director of the largest automobile plant. The prototype of the main character was the image of I. A. Likhachov (1896-1956) - the director of the Moscow Automobile Plant (ZiL).
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
 Nikolai LebedevIvan Yermakov | Ivan Yermakov |
 Vladimir SolovyovKalinin | Kalinin |
 Gennadi YudinMuromtsev | Muromtsev |
 Yuriy SarantsevGulyayev | Gulyayev |
 Margarita VolodinaAnya | Anya |
 Lyudmila ShagalovaDusya | Dusya |
 Pyotr SavinButyagin | Butyagin |
 Lyudmila PirogovaValya | Valya |
| VValeriy BezruchkoVladik | Vladik |
 Grigoriy ShpigelTatishchev | Tatishchev |
 Boris TerentyevVSNKh Chairman | VSNKh Chairman |
| SSpartak KhatiashviliTamaz | Tamaz |
 Kakhi KavsadzeLado | Lado |
 Igor Stravinskiyдоктор | доктор |
 Nikolay YakhontovWorker (uncredited) | Worker (uncredited) |