Yakut Stepan Beresekov periodically falls into a lethargic sleep. Only a Russian, the son of a priest, Ivan Popov, can distinguish his condition from real death. But Popov is going on a long ethnographic expedition. Stepan decides to follow his savior so as not to be buried alive.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
 Aleksandr ChichakhovStepan Beresekov | Stepan Beresekov |
 Innokentiy LukovtsevDoctor Sokolnikov | Doctor Sokolnikov |
| VVera EfremovaCapitolina | Capitolina |
 Darius GumauskasIvan Popov | Ivan Popov |
| KKira MaksimovaFomusya | Fomusya |
| EElena MarkovaFevronya | Fevronya |
 Stepan PetrovMaster | Master |
 Mikhail SazhinNikolay Popov | Nikolay Popov |
 Nyurguyana ShadrinaShaman | Shaman |
| NNatalya Sleptsova-KoryakinaMaya | Maya |
| VVyacheslav YugovFather Vasily | Father Vasily |
 Stepan PoryadinNot listed | Not listed |
 Zoya PopovaNot listed | Not listed |
| AAnna KuzminaNot listed | Not listed |
| DDmitri ShadrinNot listed | Not listed |
 Fedot LvovNot listed | Not listed |
| PProkopiy IvanovNot listed | Not listed |
 Pyotr SadovnikovNot listed | Not listed |
| SSergey BalanovNot listed | Not listed |
| VVladislav MichurinNot listed | Not listed |
| AAnatoly KirillinNot listed | Not listed |
 Igor GovorovNot listed | Not listed |
| IInnokenty DakayarovNot listed | Not listed |
| DDyulustan SemonovNot listed | Not listed |
 Gavril MenkyarovNot listed | Not listed |
| SSpartak LarionovNot listed | Not listed |
| FFeodosia IvanovaNot listed | Not listed |