October 1917. Russian and German soldiers, exhausted by three years of war, began to fraternize. But officers' bullets shot the fraternizers. The survivors - Ilya, Matvey, nurse Olga and German soldier Jakob - swore in front of the fallen soldiers to reach St. Petersburg and achieve peace for all.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
 Sergei BondarchukMatvey Krylov - soldat | Matvey Krylov - soldat |
| AAndrei PetrovIlya Sorokin - soldat | Ilya Sorokin - soldat |
 Erast GarinJakob Hoffmann - nemetskiy soldat | Jakob Hoffmann - nemetskiy soldat |
 Elza LezhdeyOlga Kartseva - medsestra | Olga Kartseva - medsestra |
 Mikhail UlyanovYegor Mikhaylov- soldat | Yegor Mikhaylov- soldat |
 Maria PastukhovaNadezhda Krylskaya | Nadezhda Krylskaya |
 Tatyana DoroninaKhrista | Khrista |
 Vladimir BelokurovGeneral | General |
 Oleg EfremovSenyka Radunskiy - dezertir i spekyulant | Senyka Radunskiy - dezertir i spekyulant |
 Konstantin AdashevskyCity mayor | City mayor |
| AAleksandr GumburgCossack | Cossack |
 Nina BelyayevaDrunk woman | Drunk woman |