Nikolai Kurkov, a Muscovite, worked at a research institute and dreamed of defending his thesis on agrobiology, but when he arrived in one of the villages of the Non-Chernozem region, he met a childhood friend and stayed, heading a lagging collective farm...
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
 Yuri DemichNot listed | Not listed |
 Anatoli VasilyevNot listed | Not listed |
 Nadezhda ShumilovaNot listed | Not listed |
 Vatslav DvorzhetskyNot listed | Not listed |
 Vsevolod SanayevNot listed | Not listed |
 Vladimir KashpurNot listed | Not listed |
 Vladimir GulyaevNot listed | Not listed |
 Lyubov SokolovaNot listed | Not listed |
| AAnatoly VedyonkinNot listed | Not listed |
 Yuri Katin-YartsevNot listed | Not listed |
 Pyotr Lyubeshkinshepherd (uncredited) | shepherd (uncredited) |
 Viktor LazarevNot listed | Not listed |